
The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds
The Emerald
The Essence of the Cosmos
The fundamental energy that moves through stories also moves through bodies and through the cosmos in the same exact ways. Anyone who has practised somatic movement systems understands this. Metal splitting energy moving downward like an axe through wood. Water drilling spiralling upwards like water crusting into a wave. Wood crushing energy moving for like tree roots through sto, demolishing orthang. Fire pounding like concussive blasts, exploding from centre outwards. Earth crossing like the settling force of silt and mud, like gravity drawing from the outside in and down. In yogik practice, these same elemental energies are described as the five pranas, rising, rooting, gathering, pervading, connecting. Prana
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