Sqrapple: don't unravel, unfold

September 12, 7:56 PMPractical Spirituality ExaminerAmara Rose

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"The more we allow ourselves to unfold,
the less likely we are to unravel."

~ from Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life by Irwin Kula

I'm a great fan of subtle shifts. Transposing a single letter, or altering where we choose to place our focus, can create quantum awareness: from scared to sacred, nowhere to now here, density to destiny. In this way, scrapple (a loaf-shaped meat stew) or scrabble ("to make great efforts to get somewhere or achieve something") can morph into sqrapple: square apple.

We've created square watermelons in Japan, and square apples in South Korea. Why attempt to improve on Nature's design? It's part of our innate yearning to conquer space — shelf space. And while cubic fruit may be more dimensionally desirable, it lacks a certain poetic beauty that informs the original.

This seems to be our ongoing invitation and initiation: learning to hold the "both/and", to express without excess, to midwife beauty and practicality in an 11th-hour world.

Beyond some of our more obvious paradoxes that comprise wholeness — laughing/crying, giving/receiving, birthing/dying — there is the greater stretch into what Caroline Casey calls "complex ambiguity", which is akin to the homeopathic principle of poisonous allies: what's deadly in a large dose can heal in a minute amount; the smaller the dosage, the greater the potency.

As we move into the 2012 home stretch, the celestial choir is singing with the sweetest clarity humankind has ever known. It's our once-in-this-lifetime opportunity to fully embrace our disciplined wildness, our purposeful ingenuity, our commitment to collaborative freedom, the renunciation that redeems us.

One of my favorite terms for the many ways we navigate the road Home is the cartographical "ground truth". I first heard it when I interviewed Planetwalker John Francis. A form of remote sensing, ground truth refers to gathering information on location, then translating the data into meaningful results — much as we might combine our daily acts into outcomes that serve the collective. I can hear it as enlightened slang: "Dude, what's your ground truth?"

I also like the lyrics from an old Frank Sinatra tune, That's Life:"I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king/I've been up and down and over and out, and I know one thing …" We're all All of it, and One with the All: fractals of the OneSong, Universe, harmonious chaos, Music of the Spheres.

We are each a force of Nature, a genetic/geometric/geomantic ground truth, traveling at undreamed of speed through unimaginable vastness in a spherical vessel. It's challenging to choose sides on a circle, especially as it describes delicious pi, which extends into infinity. Unite the circle and the square, however, and we approach transcendence.

This moment is ripe for collaboration, for reclaiming balance before our next galactic gavotte. Let's be fruitful and welcome a confluence of allies into our circle of influence. That's a square deal, all the way around.

For further info:

∞ Venture into expanding realities with interdisciplinary cosmologist Paul Von Ward

∞ World Alchemy offers a fascinating foray into the 156 Jewels of the Living Earth (energy vortices) that we can help activate between now and 2065, working on 3 distinct levels: inspirational, structural and creative.

∞ A simplified stewardship to the above involves focusing attention on planetary chakras, which correspond to the zodiacal wheel of the year.

∞ Sacred Geometry: How do spheres and cubes create interdimensional harmonics? This video takes us way beyond Euclid.