Let's Go Wild
#163: 2 August 2026 Introduction 1 of ?
Draft only, subject to change, only partial…this is from Unsealing Our Past: ancestral Time, Quantum Reality, and Rejoining Our Living World
We still don’t know what we don’t know about our world. We operate moment by moment with an understanding that most of the world is solid, made up of atoms and molecules that can be torn apart and reassembled into complex things. We say we live in a cold, dead Universe, and that Nature is full of “resources”, here for human use. This view of reality is commonly called Newtonian physics, or classical mechanics, which Sir Isaac first described in 1687 in his book, “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). Throughout this book, I will refer to this view as “Modern”, and I will refer to what is “common knowledge”, or mainstream descriptions of reality.
Despite all that we think we know about our world, we are still making discoveries and connections between disciplines that deepen both our understanding of how things work, and the mysteries yet to resolve. I will note some of this progress, calling it “enhancement”, because whether it comes from classical mechanics or quantum physics, development of our collective understanding of reality often doesn’t propagate quickly. Another downside to our limited knowledge is that in a complex world new information in one field may not be absorbed in another. Complexity, developed over centuries, leads to specialization; it makes it difficult for one to know enough about many topics in order to make those deep connections. On the other side, it makes it sound crazy when someone makes a connection unheard of before; especially when the shift results in a whole new perspective or opens up new paths of evolution, or forces one to change one’s beliefs. That change is sometimes difficult, especially if one’s identity derives from one’s beliefs; this is a huge challenge during times of great upheaval in the culture and day-to-day life.
Some of what I will present in Unsealing Our Past will attempt to integrate points of view that are outside of the mainstream understandings. As always, take in what is new and process it; it may make sense, and track well with your own experiences, or it may not. In other words, trust but verify. Much of the integration will derive from Quantum Physics (QP). First suggested in the early 1900’s, it posits that there is nothing solid at all; rather, everything is energy and connected, not separate; nothing is non-local; and nothing is manifest outside of conscious awareness. In Chapter Two we will explore how the quantum view closely mirrors an indigenous perspective where humans are a node in the Web of Life, just not the dominant creature above all but God. Seeing everything as connected changes everything. It gives us an opportunity to maintain healthy communities and healthy Nature as we connect using healthy relationships. This is the real wealth we inherit as humans…each person has gifts to share with their community, and in return, community is there to care for them when they need help.
Throughout this story, we will focus on how different aspects of human consciousness and experience resonate and support other aspects. We will touch on ancestral trauma and its impacts on both culture and self; on how Quantum Physics gives us new understanding of time itself; on both the quantum and chakra concepts of energy, with a focus on the heart chakra and the ways it guides us to understand community and caring for all; on the role Nature itself plays in shaping and healing us when we open our hearts to its guidance; on how mythology and language can both explain how we got where we are today, and how we can manifest the more beautiful world our heart knows is possible.
Our ideas about reality contribute to the creation of our infrastructure and social structures, and these, in turn, shape our experience of reality. In Unsealing Our Past, we will explore one of the fundamental, Modern narratives of humanity: the idea of a supposed individual separate self—a misperception of identity with critical implications for the future of humanity and the more-than-human realm. Critical and massive transformations are far less efficient when enacted by humans whose basic understanding, of themselves and their world is flawed. Thus it behooves us to gain clarity about what is real, when a collective mistaken identity conceived as “I am apart from …” interferes with our true relationship to all that is. Without a maturation of our foundational beliefs/narratives, and growth in our meaning-making abilities, even accepted social structures are prone to eventual failure. These deeper belief systems of being ‘separate from’ are interwoven into the superstructures that undergird the social and infrastructures. The story of separation is a partial and ultimately inaccurate rendering of reality. It contributes to a world rife with alienation—from oneself, from others, and from life itself. Estrangement is the natural consequence of forgetting we are interconnected to our very core. We are the Earth, sky, oceans, and the entire planet. We are related to salmon, rose, granite and carbon dioxide. Of course, we love the Earth. It is us! What we take to be ourselves is naturally attended to. So, too, tending to the world is tending to the one and only body—our Body.
There is the story of the caterpillar and the butterfly. A caterpillar is born, and crawls and climbs through life. At some point, the adult begins to eat itself silly. That’s natural, but to the caterpillar it seems like death is rapidly approaching. A compulsion takes over, and the caterpillar spins a cocoon around itself and, as much as it knows, dies. At this point it cannot even imagine in Wild dreams the concept of butterfly. Inside the cocoon its body essentially dissolves; and cells we call “imaginal cells” take control and turn that nutrient soup into a new creature, a butterfly. That first flight; exiting the cocoon and riding the wind, is a transformation so intense that it gives me hope, given our situation today.
Understanding this story is a doorway we can pass through – a threshold from confusion to clarity, from caterpillar to butterfly, from identification with an alienated, separate self-sense to identification with all of life, as One Self. What if it is not “me” who wakes up and crosses such a threshold; rather, Life itself wakes up to its wholeness through me? It is not me discovering my life-serving gifts, but life discovering its capacity to heal and repair itself within me.
