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The heart is an intricate pump. It creates electromagnetic fields that others can feel or through which we can communicate. We exist immersed in living fields of communication, all of which are imbued with meaning, generated by intelligent life forms which flow from and to us from the moment the cells of our bodies self-organize into the unique identities that we know as ourselves.
We feel the touch of the world upon us, and those millions of unique touches hold within them specific meanings, sent to us from the heart of the world and from the heart of the living beings with which we inhabit this world. We are never alone.
The greeks had a word for the heart’s ability to perceive meaning from the world: aisthesis.
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In Aristotalian psychology the organ of aesthesis is the heart; passages from all the sense organs run to it; there the soul is set on fire. Its thought is innately aesthetic and sensately linked with the world.—James Hillman
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Aisthesis denotes the moment in which a flow of life force, imbued with communications, moves from one living organism to another. The word literally means ‘to breath in’. it is a taking in of the world, a taking in of soulful communications. […]
The world takes us in too—we are breathed.
The use of the heart as an organ of perception and communication […] weaves us inextricably into the life web of the Earth, gathering knowledge from the heart of the world.
—Stephen Harrod Buhner
The Secret Teachings of Plants, excerpts
(treasure)
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The small ruby everyone wants has fallen out on the road.
Some think it is East of us, others West of us.
Some say ‘among primitive earth rocks’,
Others, 'in the deep waters.’
Kabir’s instinct told him it was inside,
And what it was worth –
And he wrapped it up carefully in his heart cloth.
—Kabir
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