Culture

 
 

_I: Yesterday I had a question... Many times we've talked about the spirit as something so vast that it cannot inhabit a body, and therefore it expands like wifi throughout the universe, and bodies download it like mobile apps. However, it's not what you described yesterday, where the spirit is the basis of all things inside, and that it is the seed expressed in the body... So, how is it understood?

_AM: "Mïrkabayn-há".

_I: What?

_AM: Your languages have been so concerned with describing the details of the world that they have lost the ability to express the essential. It's almost impossible to explain in your languages such a large and interdimensional concept. The expression Mïrkabayn-há comes from the phrase "Mïr kah bah aeynon há," which describes the attribute of man being his own home where consciousness and energy develop. "Mïr" describes the individual mind of a human, man or woman, self-referenced and their consciousness of being, which exists only through its interconnected manifestation in pulsating networks, the spiritual connection called "kah," and all of this residing in one, in the energy of the body, in the material essence called "bah," the home of being. Aeynon is a construction that does not exist in current languages, and it describes a place, location, that becomes a subject performing an action, in this case, that apparent being from the inside that in its observation mobilizes to develop from inner perception, but daring to go beyond and evolving in life, which is called "há." The phrase translates into a single concept: Mïrkabayn-há, which tries to narrate that everything that lives outside is inside, that what expands is so great that it can only be found internally, because nothing that exists really is, and therefore, what is inside constantly moves by the outside. Your language is built on dual, polarized concepts, and it's impossible for you to describe the "bah" concept, that is: home that lives inside. "Bär" describes the physical, concrete, material house, and "bahab" the celestial home, the subtle, which gives rise to the word transcendence: "buhub" (same word for death), that is, something that goes beyond and yet remains here because it returns home. The word describes the way something can be inside and outside at the same time, it can enter the body and still as it does, it shows that it is coming out of it. They are words that normalize what you call paradoxes because they describe reality from a different dimension than the one you have built your reality on. All fabrics, creation, your technology, were designed to adapt to a specific environment, and you understand, therefore, all things from that point of view.

_I: I understand, so the spirit is so vast that it cannot belong to a body, but at the same time, it is the spirit or a part of it that manifests in matter.

_AM: That's right...

_I: It's kind of complex to visualize.

_AM: It's a Tesseract. The reality weaver spider. It's your own inner spirit generating around it the chrysalis structure of a body, and at the same time, expanding outside of it eternally to be downloaded again into it. It's the most perfect feedback technology.

_I: Speaking of feedback, another question arose: Technology is the art that our Spirit has manifested through the Body. What is it that our Body gives or manifests to the Spirit?

_AM: Culture.

_I: Umm okay. How?

_AM: Culture, as you know it today, is a concept used mainly from the 20th century onwards to describe the set of knowledge, traditions, characteristics, attributes, artistic capabilities of a specific or general human group. Culture describes the cluster of information that nourishes individuals. A culture can be considered by itself the construction of diverse individuals who develop ways of interrelating, or you can also know the concept of culture as the intellectual baggage acquired by an individual through study or experience. But culture was not always considered like this. The word Culture is no more than 600 years old and describes the action or active quality (-ura) of inhabiting or changing the habitat. Its etymological root comes from the Indo-European "Kwel," which means "change, move, inhabit a new place," a word that gave rise to the Greek "kyklós," that is, "cycles," which refers to repetitive time circles, like the seasons of the year; for this reason, in Latin, cycle became "circulus," giving rise to the verb "colo," that is: to collect, to gather, and which originates "colere," which is to collect the fruit of what was sown in the cycles of the seasons, from whose participle is "cultus," translated as collected, gathered." Therefore, in the Middle Ages, what was harvested in the harvest was called Culture, and Cultivate became the verb to carry out the whole process of sowing, caring, and harvesting. Thus, from the Indo-European: kwel, giving turns, rotating, moving, changing places, we arrive at the concept of seasons as a circle of time through which sowing and harvesting of fruits and grains are carried out.

_I: What does Cultivation have to do with the Worship of a God?

_AM: Everything is related. First of all, remember that humans do everything they do for food, they need to feed themselves, and the gods are a kind of security to obtain food. So, in the same way that agricultural tasks were carried out, help from the gods was needed for good sowing, rain, pest control, good harvest, etc. Therefore, honoring the gods and giving offerings to them was synchronized with the cyclical rhythms of the field, and because it was a cycle, the concept was also called "Cult," participating in something that repeats in a change or movement. The term of inhabiting or moving was related to the astrological houses, houses or mansions of the gods in the sky, which changed, moved, according to the season or month of the year. Therefore, due to its change and repetitive repetition of rituals to the gods year after year, it is known as Worship to follow a specific divinity.

_I: I understand. And who is someone who is considered cultured?

_AM: Here we can understand it from two possible perspectives. The first describes the fact that this person does not stick with a single stance or view of things but dares to change, to see things from different perspectives, to broaden their vision of things, and therefore, circulates repeatedly through different areas of knowledge, nourishing themselves from each one. Thus, someone "cultured" is a person with different knowledge acquired in their movement through life. But on the other hand, we arrive at the concept we are looking for. A cultured person is one who has been cultivated. Imagine that your body and your mind in it are like a land with many minerals and potentials, but they do not wake up if I do not add to it the necessary elements: water and seeds. If your body is a garden or land rich in minerals with the potential to create fruits to share as its gifts with the world, you should know that, to achieve creating them, you need to till the land. Tilling the land is creating the furrows that flex the terrain. A flat terrain is more prone to drying out and creating a rigid layer where water and seeds simply slide and do not nourish the soil. Therefore, furrows create curves, wrinkles in the terrain, that allow water to move and remain, permeate, allow other nutrients to cling to the corners of the furrows and be absorbed by the soil. They also make a home, shelter, for the seeds that fly or that you deposit in the soil. A smooth and flat mind is an empty and infertile mind. A mind with many curves and labyrinths is a rich and fertile mind. Naturally, your brain has been ordered with furrows, with folds to secure the information. A land with wrinkles has greater chances of creating life, and a smooth one, of becoming a desert. Therefore, for good cultivation, collection, harvest, you need to learn to flex, to bend your terrain, to have other points of view, to open your heart, mind, and body. And then, you must water the land. With what?

_I: With water...

_AM: That your being calls "emotions." You have to learn to water just enough so you don't drown the land or let it dry out. Water brings life and heals the wounds of the land by shaping the furrows, softening the terrain. And so the seeds are planted, the spiritual potential that comes from the Tree of Life and Knowledge. Now, a monoculture can give you only one reason, thought, idea. Therefore, variety is necessary because a single fruit is not nutritious. For a healthy diet, variety is necessary: consuming different shapes, different colors, and cooking them in different ways. So, your Body is watered by the Soul and sown by the Spirit. And the potential of the Body, of the land, its minerals, its phosphorus, iron, calcium, silicon, nitrogen, are what will make the spiritual seed grow, nurtured by the emotional water of the soul.

_I: How beautiful to see it like that...

_AM: It's beautiful. That's how human gifts arise, the abilities of the individual, art, which in the interaction of different terrains and plants, design more gifts, creating art. And that art is what the spirit collects, gathers, it is the product of its own seed. Seeds do not germinate without the soul's water, and even if they germinate, they will not become strong without the body's minerals. The roots, the branches, the fruits, grow thanks to the nutrients of the soil, and without them, there would be no final product, there would be no spiritual fruit. That's why the spirit needs to manifest, be born, live, experience because no matter how much the seed contains all the potential in its center, its interior, without what the soul and the body have to give, it could never express what it really is. It's its harvest, it's its cultivation. And the more people interact, the more crops there will be, and that's how each seed creates its culture.

_I: Human cultures are the spiritual fruits of individuals.

_AM: The more cultures there are, the greater the ability of the being to harvest the fruits of the spirit.

_I: So, the more cultures we know, the more we open ourselves to other races, countries, traditions, we will be nourishing our spirit, to discover our own potential. The way to discover who I am is by opening myself to nourish myself from others. From each culture, each religion, philosophy, science, vision, tradition, ancient or modern culture, nourishing myself from the human art that we have created together.

_AM: Life is a museum in constant transformation. Life is a Museum. The word museum may remind you today of a frivolous place of old and dead objects, accumulated and cataloged that describe the history of artists or activists and their achievements. However, for the ancients, it was quite the opposite. Museum comes from the Greek "Mouseion," which means "home of the Muses." Muses were the Greek divinities that described the attributes of the arts. Calliope (epic), Clio (history), Erato (lyric), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polymnia (pantomime), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (dance), and Urania (astronomy). In this space, the souls and minds of people were cultivated, the spirit was harvested by living fully present in the body.

_I: So, I must turn my body into a Museum, where all the cultures of the world have a space, where I can nourish myself from all of them so that my own fruits grow. Culture ceases to be, then, a heavy tradition for me; it ceases to be a human construct that clings us to group attachments and herds, to become the key that nourishes the spiritual seed so that my being gives its fruits to the world.

_AM: Honor the culture, cultivate your being, open yourself to all the cultures of the world, and you will find the fruit of your spirit.

_I: I Am the Spiritual Culture. I Am the soil of rich nutrients, potentials that awaken with the watering of my soul, and that manifest in the seed of my spirit.

_AM: And cycle after cycle, you will expand more and more.

 
 
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