I turn toward the surf club and am struck by the scene. I regret for a moment that I left my camera behind, but quickly realise its absence allows me perfect presence with my experience. I breathe it in. The sun is rising, casting an eerie glow on the horizon behind two punctuating palm trees.
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Salt
Even though I have yet to perform the act (in this life at least), it feels familiar, like I have done it a thousand times before.
Reflecting sincerely, I admit I want power; power to bend circumstance to my will, but there is also a part of me that knows better.
The Goddess Rumbles Under Rome
Rome laid the patriarchal foundations upon which Western scholarship still rests. Its hierarchies of power are civic, religious, and intellectual. They are all modeled on the same vertical order. Father is above family, ruler is above citizen, and mind is above matter. Authority flowed top down, and the written word overwrote the spoken and embodied; record supplanted memory; doctrine displaced gnosis.
Modern academia inherited this structure almost intact, enshrining order and control as the highest expressions of ‘civilization’. It privileges abstraction over lived wisdom, intellect over intuition, and permanence over process. Beneath its language of progress, it still speaks the tongue of empire. It carries a legacy that silences what cannot be contained, classified, or cited.
This Ol House: A Journey of Renovation and Renewal
“There is an energy here… unlike any I have felt in other places. It creates a cocoon… a powerful catalyst for the deep to flow.”
The Sound of Her Voice 