Looking Far - a poetical conversation

RITUAL OF SACRED REST

[20:21, 11/11/2021] Xeh:
Let’s stop and disconnect from the slaughterhouse,
let’s climb the mountain and look at the universe,
let’s do our ritual to video-call our ancestors,
and let’s record it [with the omniscient eye]
so in -a not-too-distant- future,
we will tele-rest in the virtual cavern,
and we will watch from the dark
the technological essence of our days.
We will create a ritual for the sacred rest,
for the renewal of the spirit,
and put it on VR,
as an archaeological piece of our times.
[20:21, 11/11/2021] Roxy:
I propose you, dear travel companion,
that we make an offering.
Dressed as the human-bat,
with his immense headdress that reaches the sky,
we will return to our mother-earth a part of us that dies month by month,
nails, hair, skin, blood ...
… And so,
before dying forever in this body,
we die and be reborn together with her,
with her permission and her gifts.
[20:22, 11/11/2021] Xeh:
Aligned with the star map,
we will fly to the infra and the supra world
to be able to see...
What illuminates the light of our devices?
How will we look far ... beyond our screens?
How will we rest in the midst of artificial energy to revive vital energy?

Self-exploited and dazzled by excess
of productivity,
of money,
of followers,
of objects,
no hope of retiring at 40,
or buying a house in the country side.
We satisfy ourselves with the infinite scroll,
and the empaths of Tik-Tok.
Breaks are questions without answers,
they’re “active-breaks”,
to then return to the hustle,
without regrets.
1 recess equals 1 guilt,
1 nap equals 5.
Digital nomadism,
telecommuting,
stunts to separate work from pleasure,
nothing is pleasure,
because everything is work.
Boss just texted,
It’s 9PM... on a thursday.
Work on the screen,
Rest on the screen,
Family on the screen,
Masturbate on the screen,
Spend money on the screen
Order lunch on the screen,
Find love on the screen.
I will make the market hate me:
I will close all my social networks,
I will not produce content,
I will not apply for that job,
I’ll run barefoot in the middle of the forest
towards the forbidden valley,
the one where 4G does not reach.
We live tired,
and the only antidote to tiredness
is rest.

When I was a child,
if I would complain of boredom,
my mother and grandmother would tell me:
“Look far”,
sit on the rocking chair,
watch people go by in the afternoon,
look without looking,
meditate.
On field trips,
exploring the sandy towns of the Caribbean,
you can see the people sitting in the patios,
or in the parks,
lying in a hammock,
“looking far”.

Time? What is the time?
6 in the afternoon, the time of the mosquito.
Those from the mountains,
where the progress of this nation is,
they accuse us, the ones of our region,
of being lazy,
can you imagine - the audacity!?!

They don’t understand that our philosophy
of cogerla suave (taking it soft),
it is our resistance to exploitation,
to a capital-centric vision of existence,
to grow old without having enjoyed life.
“Wooork, woooork, woooork”
with a very long ooo,
those are the famous words of the unnameable,
hey “cachaco” (mountains guy)
...
...
...
cógela suave!

WHAT ACTION OF LOVE AND JUSTICE CAN BE HIGHER THAN TO ENJOY OURSELVES IN THE REST, TO ALLOW US TO ENJOY THE RESULTS OF A COMMITTED AND ARDUOUS WORK?

The Human-Bat Cycle

It is the ruling planet of Taurus and Libra,
sensual signs that aim for love and justice.
In one of its deepest qualities,
Taurus understands that the contemplation and enjoyment of the simple, valuable and profound,
is the fruit of patience and commitment.

How did I forget to tell you my dear Xeh,
about the incredible and swampy, complementary opposite of Taurus,
in this transformation of the next eclipses?
The dark, demonic and angelic sign of Scorpio.
The Scorpio-Taurus axis represents Dark and Light,
Taurus is pleasure, Scorpio is pain and death.
In this cycle, beliefs will die.
The darkness together with an offering, are requisites for rebirth.

The human-bat,
example of death and introspection from the dark,
gaze in the cave to see the shadows.
As the allegory of the cave tells us,
we integrate the shadow that will allow us to change the skin,
to take the next step…
to renew our ways of resting,
to mutate,
to transform,
and evolve.

We are going through the deepest and most critical moment of transformation of humanity as we have known it for 2021 years.
The stars tell us that we are closing a stage identified as the age of Pisces. In this era, humans have experienced the world from a mental, emotional, spiritual and economic structure that responds to lack, fear and the need for acceptance.
From astro numerology, evolutionary astrology and humanistic astrology, it is predicted that in 2022 a cycle of creating new scales of values will begin, based on the eclipses of the Taurus-Scorpio nodal axes.

Taurus: resources, vulnerability, security.
What are our essential foundations of life?
How do we enjoy life? How do we live a dignified and pleasant life?
Taurus and Scorpio are the signs of life and death,
of sensoriality and manipulation, of courage and power.

What is the relationship with our body? Have we disconnected from it?
Can contemplation be the new/old way of returning to the present, to the body?

Taurus not only rests to regain strength and continue working,
but it enjoys that moment,
The great verb of its ruler Venus is: enjoy!
Venus, planet of love and expression,
represents our personal values and what we passionately love.

TELE-REST

Let’s stop time,
let’s read the stars,
let’s do a new ritual to promise ourselves
do not mistreat the eyes.
And one day,
when the time of breaks and rituals
will have completely disappeared,
we will put on the mask of virtual reality,
to convince ourselves for a second
that place still exists...
that we can still “look far”.

The presence of rest,
the telepresence of rest,
the presence of tele-rest,
the telepresence of tele-rest.
Rest on Tele-vision,
do the ritual on Tele-vision,
be on Tele-vision,
Will we tele-be?
I believe my dear Roxy,
that the famous metaverse will never be enough,
we haven’t even glimpsed the multiverse yet,
which is still one,
the multiverse in which we all are...
... working in break time.

We rest on the screen
moving the fingers up and down,
viewing the content in small dimensions,
also when we throw ourselves in the hammock.

[11:11, 11/11/2021] Roxy:
Silicon is a metalloid chemical element,
atomic number 14. It is located in group 14 of the periodic table of elements.
Symbol = SI.
It is the second most abundant element in the earth’s crust after oxygen.

[11:11, 11/11/2021] Roxy:
Silicon is the # 1 element of smartphones.
Resting,
with my eyes glued to the smartphone,
I will try to go back to nature with my mind,
while the mental autopilot discovers new memes.
Will it be possible to tele-immerse ourselves in a resting moment-space?
… To climb the holy mountain
… To look at the sky,
… To do our rituals?
Let’s go to the sacred territory together,
let’s sit on the stones,
let’s remember what it was like to not carry a device,
and let’s have an experience...
… a real one.