What is an edge?
Photo by Reni Petrova / Edit Mariya Apostolova
A boundary
beginning and an end
an edge is a threshold, inevitable and self-perpetuating
It outlines a shape and it may hold a form
an edge is a surface, the surface of a surface and where variations in the texture of a surface meet
edges are relative
they may be a variation in the density of matter
edges reflect light
edges border two different ecosystems
What does the surrounding world reveal to the biased eye of an artist seeking to indulge in the next coincidental frame of contrast? An approaching wave tickles the sand, some leaves on the sidewalk - perfectly fallen, the edge of a broken shell - an elusive boundary within an abyss.
Noticia, James Hilman writes, is the full acquaintance on which knowledge depends.
Edges hold light, the absence of it and the illusion of separation. On the edge, the palms of light and dark meet in prayer.
On the edge
I Build Myself Up
I rise from the water – the womb
a rock, a silence, a moment on a remote shore
A granite mountain – my forehead kissed by the sun
feet submerged in the heavy belly of life
I rise from the water – the roots
my robust bark, an armour weaved from the tender veins of earth
I rise from the water – the Self
to undress my reflection from doubt
half a ram – with horns self-healing telson
sight piercing - the distance births light
half a centaur – hair blue with ocean water
the dove nests on her lips
I build myself up
A belt of thorns the heart unleashes, daggers melt in highways of steel
I travel through the silver rivers - a nesting bird among a thorny maze
A baby elephant emerges from the nest
my tail - a black bloom tulip, sings the harmony of time
my trunk - a pendulum brush produces the crown of an ancient tree
I come from you and you come from me
Photo by Micah Knapp
Edges are where we touch. Or not?
Cells form tissues, tissues build organs, organs participate in systems and systems constantly interact to maintain homeostasis and to build new neural patterns. On the edge of a Bulgarian circle dance – a palm gives, a palm receives. In such state of balance, hostility is inconceivable. One recognises that such relationship of meticulous equilibrium is unattainable as a static moment, for balance is a dynamic process rather than a fixed moment in time and space, yet supported by the infinite frame of interconnectivity.
Our genes are not all locked into unchanging programs...but in fact profoundly affected by the environment, particularly our emotional environment. 1
Dr. Lara Boyd from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre For Brain Health suggests that behaviour changes the brain's chemical signals and therefore the brain increases neuron production which alters its structure. Hence the brain not only absorbs information from the outside world and processes it but is also changed by this interaction. For example, physical changes in the brain support long term memory, while chemical changes are responsible for establishing neuron connections for short term memory, The brain has been shaped structurally and functionally by everything you do or you don't do. 2
On the edge another plus one is one.
Getting acquainted with the work of HeartMath Institute, I discover that every emotion, produced in the heart is measurable through hearth rate variability monitoring. Every emotion is emitted in a different amplitude and affects its environment. Studies of the magnetic field of the heart show it spreading several feet away from the body. Therefore, one's heart is inevitably in touch with the heart of another, creating an undeniable experience of interconnection and interference.
Further research of HeartMath provides data that the field emitted by the heart is
5,000 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain, and can be detected a number of feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometer. 3
Records on the heart rate variability confirm the ability of the heart to communicate and influence processes in the body and the brain through interdependence. At the same time the research on the heart’s electromagnetic field establishes it as a vital source of communication between the environment and the body.
One person’s heart signal can affect another’s brainwave and heart-brain synchronisation can occur between two people when they interact.4
Other studies show that the heart can feel danger before it happens due to its sophisticated electromagnetic field.
On the edge of discerning such level of interconnection, one’s engagement as a feeling and thinking being becomes an empowering tool for universal healing. For one's psychophysiological health may directly influence the environment and another. The commitment to personal wellbeing, capability for self-love and experience of the world expands the understanding of the individual responsibility as a constant transmitter in the uninterrupted field of life.
References
Mercogliano, Chris., Debus, Kim. (1999). An Interview with Joseph Chilton Pearce. Journal of Family Life Magazine.Vol. 5 #1.
Boyd, Lara. (2015). Plasticity and the Brain of Children with Learning Disabilities. Retrieved from:http://www.neuroplasticityandeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/lara-boyd.pdf
McCraty,R., Mike Atkinson and Dana Tomasino. HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath, Publication No. 01-001. Boulder Creek, CA, 2001. http://www.traumatys.com/wp- content/uploads/2017/09/Coherence-cardiaque-Science-of-the-Heart.pdf
McCraty R. HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath. The Scientific Role of The Heart in Learning and Performance, Publication No. 02-030, Boulder Creek, CA, 2002.
