7. Seeing Survival, Rising Above It
What is the Genuine Interest in Existing, if Just to Survive?
This is the 8th posting in a series of 73, released every 5th day in 2025
0. Momentum Metanoia 1. The Root: Fuel’s Potential 2. The Organism Prism 3. From All to Part 4. Rooted Right In 5. Ego Formation 6. “I Am” (Aries)
Seven signifies the relationship with harmony to persevere despite challenge and the experience of discordance. This is the nature of the seed’s growth and development: regardless of whatever thought is projected unto a seed from a human perspective, the seed does not perceive its existence to be a function of economy or some productive outcome. It does not know what it is by any name or genus; it did not go to school to be told what to expect or what will be its outcome.
Within the seed, when it becomes animated by means of water, it begins to expand. As this growth consumes what was the raw material within the seed’s shell, it builds pressure against its own protective boundary. Without any material left to consume and no more space to expand, the seed faces an existential dilemma. What will come from breaking this container? What will come from not breaking this container?
Naturally, the seedling breaks free by means of this pressure; but how does it know to extend its head upwards and descend its tail downwards? How was this learned? Is this new space just another shelled experience, just larger and of a different substance? Does the seedling have any capacity to understand that it is part of an ecosystem, or does it see itself to be the only existence within its reality?
Within the human experience, the relationship with harmony becomes complex by magnitudes. If a person is not able to come into a relationship with the tension that exists in life, what comes to be as consequence? As was mentioned in 5. Ego Formation: “if an individual is not becoming aware of consequence in relation to welfare, an individual is not becoming conscious.” Each of the intelligence centers (bodies) as mentioned in 5 are seeds within their own nature and design. No two grow the same- they grow within their own nature and design. It feels relevant to reiterate this point. However, as is the nature of the color wheel, their transitions aid in communicating their nature and design. In this way, there is much to be said about the relation of inversions- but that will come to be explored in future points.
In a similar way that an ecosystem thrives by means of biodynamic harmony (each participant in the ecosystem contributes to the whole’s welfare for homeostasis), so too is the nature of these bodies within our internal environment. If some bodies are neglected, others overcompensate- but they cannot fill the niche unique to these seeds which have either fallen into decay or remain dormant.
For as long as a person is living, these seeds are still alive- what will come to be of the color wheel if but one color becomes black (or white for that matter)? They will all become transformed to this degree of saturation. As is the case within ecosystems and within our immune system, if one element is diminished the entire system is compromised. If one opportunistic “seed” (parasite, virus, etc.) comes to find a place within this soil, it will come to rise and develop in relation to how much the “Origin Seed” was neglected in its development. In truth, how many people are living today by means of artificially-generated vitality? -of machines, or medications, or drugs (red; physical body, sensual body)? By means of theoretically-injected personality? -of institutions, or religions, or “science,” or “culture” (blue; mental body, intuitive body)? Pandemics upon pandemics, all rooted into the inflamed point of integration (“purple;” lifestyle, sense of homeostasis vs. distress, etc). What is the inversion of purple? What is the nature of emotional intelligence- separated from a cerebralized reduction, or mythological malfunction? Separated from some consumed substance, or authority dependence?
