{"id":2658,"date":"2024-09-21T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2024-09-21T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:09:21","slug":"on-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/archives\/2658","title":{"rendered":"On Being"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, while writing my second book about the Andean Cosmovision I came across this nugget.<\/p>\n

On not identifying as an isolated, temporary being, but instead, identifying with Being…<\/p>\n

“Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.\u00a0 You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable.\u00a0 As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering.\u00a0 And not merely ‘some day’: now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once<\/em> but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.\u00a0 For eternally and always there is only now<\/em>, one and the same now; the present is the only\u00a0 thing that has no end.”<\/p>\n

Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, as quoted by Alan Watts in The Book:\u00a0 On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.<\/em><\/p>\nShare... <\/span>\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, while writing my second book about the Andean Cosmovision I came across this nugget. On not identifying as an isolated, temporary being, but instead, identifying with Being… “Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[20,18,43],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysticism","tag-mysticism","tag-pachamama","tag-salka","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salkawind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}