“As a fast-flowing river approaches a rock, it swirls and turns back on itself. Behind the rock, a vortex is born and persists as a highly stable form. The river is demonstrating all the characteristics of chaos. Its behavior is highly complex, including random, unpredictable flows, eddies, and stable vortices.”

“A vortex is a distinct and individual entity, and yet it is indivisible from the river that created it….. In a vortex, a constantly flowing cell wall separates inside from outside. However, the wall itself is both inside and outside. The same is the case for the membranes in animal and plant cells. The vortex suggests the paradox suggests the paradox that the individual is also the universal: Our creative moments – whether it is looking freshly at a tree or coming to a new understanding about our lives – are moments when we are in touch with our own authentic truth, when we experience our unique presence in the world. But, paradoxically, the experience of a unique presence is also often coupled with a sensation of ourselves as indivisible from the whole.”
[SEVEN LIFE LESSONS OF CHAOS: John Briggs and David Peat]

This is an amazing idea and one which I have some experience with. I have had the experience of feeling my body/psychology as a swirling construct, a relative reality when viewed against the Whole Sky of Being. This experience was a conscious, waking one. It was great to find it spoke of in this book…..

Anyone else????