The Way of the Calabash 4: Kumadze and the Interior Cosmos of Becoming
"This journey we have embarked upon", I ventured to ask my guide as we walked on, ''what are its stages, its progressions? What will its conclusion be like?" She looked at me in response but did not reply. Her eyes, both still and mobile with a cosmos of possibilities, seemed to be both within me, looking into me, as well as looking at me from across the space between us. Something within me throbbed in reaction, a vibration in rhythm with my speech, as if activated by my questions. An image appeared in my mind's eye, a muscular figure moving through a space palpitating with symbols, shapes ablaze within an expanse suffused by the blue of ocean depths. I felt cocooned by the gentle pulse of blue, a creature in primeval waters beginning its long journey from a single celled organism to the complex of nerves and brain that is the human being- a miniscule identity throbbing with a sense of infinite possibility, potential nevertheless beyond the ...