Appointment with Nobody Clarissa Pinkola Estes and her letter

Dear Brave Souls: Appointment with Nobody... Thanks to La Lisa for having sent this request along some time back: Always appreciative to those who love beauty and hope to bring more beauty to our word that often stumbles about waist deep in the sludge of minutae and complaint.

There are other pathways.... as I wrote in wwrwtw: in the forest, there are pathways through the tanglewood... to see them you have to sharpen your eyes into an old crone's squint, and ¡Mire! suddenly there are the clear passageways through to the river...

Appointment with Nobody

For our appointment with Nobody
let us meet
at the Clock with no Hands
on the 9th day of the Week
while it is still SummerWinter
and the noonday stars
are spinning peacefully,
and all is well
in all 5,000 Worlds.

And let us call
the meeting notes
of this appointment--
Prayer,

or by its other name--
Meditation,

or by another name--
called Trance,

or by yet another term--
Grateful Rest,

or that dance medicine
whirled in the hoop
of singing soft or strong,
or dancing soft or strong,
or chanting soft or strong,
or making, showing,
teaching, telling,
painting, forming,
soft or strong...
whatever makes Time
--and us-- disappear...

summoning us back
from the edge
of irritated
everyday consciousness--
and instead--
back into Original Consciousness

--that is, complete Return
to Original Hope
that fits like a motherskin
with a fit we can barely feel
so perfect is the size
of True Self when held
against the Nobody.

This comes with love,
dr.e

"Appointment with Nobody" poem excerpt from The Contemplari manuscript ©2000, by CP Estés, all rights reserved.

CODA: I know many of you know the 'go away' space, the 'no body' space one occupies naturally, when being at peace, in rest, working out, creating, sheltering innocence, teaching, telling, dancing, chanting, in a way that takes us into No Body.

As we lean into ritual, ceremony, prayer, meditation, I believe we are not only making holy love to all Great and small, we are most assuredly "Making Life"--- I mean that literally as

renewing/ adding to the Animating Force, that is, as I coined the phrase in my work ["the golden fuse' ] to explain the electrical field of emotive content and biological traces that energize the egoic body which literally runs down like a clock on a regular basis--

the electrical conduits we carry inborn are to be used to re-animate, recharge 'the golden fuse at the center of our Being." No one can long go without re-charging thusly ...

and one of the most elegant and touching ways to do this, is to enter what I'd call 'an out there that isnt 'here'' just by the call of one's heart to 'be away' for a time from all ego machinations, and to sink back instead into original self; pure, innocent, at peace, without need to 'get' or regret, without need to judge or know or say or force or contend.

To be NoBody is 'just being in Being'

--that returns us to balance.

I've noted and no doubt you have too, that when a car battery is jump started, the current must be connected with the terminals of the battery... otherwise the electric current that is meant to recharge the battery is dispersed.

All the ways listed above attach the electrical surge to the terminals of mind, body, soul, spirit and heart.

But/and... it is work. It has to be undertaken. Begun. Held for a time.

Then, when the ignition is turned, the center comes roaring back to life from its fits of cough cough sputter sputter --that it mutter-spluttered before return to True Self.

Think on these things. The words are easy to say, but the proof is in the work of sitting, standing, rising, jumping, leaping-- across all ennui.

Love again to you.