Reader, I sent the first storied body email three months ago, and since then, have let them emerge organically. I clear my energy, ground, sit down at the typewriter I use in my etheric office and let the words flow.
They've taken us to so many different places and perspectives of the body: adipose tissue and the memory field, the stillness of a single cell, and what the collective body is asking us to imagine into existence. It's been a dream to sit down each Friday, ask the collective body what story it wants me to tell, and then transcribing it for you here.
As this series moves forward, it's going to reflect the rhythm of the Mythosomatic Sanctuary.
So instead of each week feeling like a wildly different story in the far reaches of the collective body, it will start to organize. A collection within the DNA, and then the Fluid Realm. A series where Bone gets to speak, and then Organ. A period of weeks spent with Muscle, followed by deeply listening to the collective Nervous System. And over the summers, an extended period with fascia and what it wants to connect us to. As the summer season is known as the Dreaming Field, I can only imagine the stories that will be told and translated during that time.
My hope is that the collective body will start to tell stories that weave together and create a fuller picture that can't be seen in snippets across time.
Our DNA anthology begins today
The first thing I become aware of is a strobing effect behind my eyelids. A pulsing light flashing rapidly from dark to light, and a feeling that I'm being pulled toward something. As I open my eyes and focus on my surroundings, I can confirm: I'm definitely being pulled towards something.
I'm rushing through what feels like a debris field, moving subtly left, right, up and and down to dodge huge glowing white artifacts, which are passing so quickly I can't focus on them. Some seem to be smooth and rounded, others have jagged edges, but most are much larger than I am.
As I try to move my arms or legs, I realize I don't seem to have any. It quickly becomes obvious that I'm not my human self at the moment, but rather another piece of matter. Like my consciousness has been placed inside of this object in order to have its experience.
I draw closer and closer to what is pulling me, and as I do, a humming sound gets louder. Humming may be the wrong word here, because that implies a frequency range that humans can hear. This is definitely not audible in a human way. I'm hearing something that this body I'm inhabiting is being drawn in by. It's hard to describe a magnetic force that doesn't feel like a magnet, and a humming sound that isn't heard in the same way a human hears a sound.
With a surge of recognition I understand what this is.
This is resonance.
This is the energetic experience of being a match for something.
Suddenly, I get close enough that the pull of the frequency drops away and I'm left to float like there is no more gravity, no more pull, no force, just...ease. Just correctness.
Then I see it, what drew me here.
An epigenetic shift in the DNA. An energetic movement between base pairs in the strand.
From this stillness I can now see what I moved through. Everything that was once a match is being pushed away, and everything now pulled close by this DNA shift is arriving.
It felt like upheaval, like a change in the rules mid-game.
It felt messy, but also crystal clear.
The resonance shifted throughout and new instructions were issued. What's encoded will now come from this and the old coding will fade into obscurity. Collapse and emergence at the same time.
I give myself time to take this in. There's no need to rush as I observe what is still moving in the DNA; teeny tiny micro-adjustments are still happening. We've arrived mid-shift before anything is fully settled, and it feels like we were shown this as a reminder of how fast frequency works. How quickly something can become resonant or fall out of resonance. How stunningly simple it can be to rearrange your entire world within a cell.
I feel myself getting bigger again, rapidly outgrowing the size that can see anything in the DNA Realm. But as I grow I notice this shift hasn't even completed from cell-to-cell yet. The hive-mind of the DNA hasn't transmitted the new resonance to the entire body. What we were asked to witness was the very start of the process. The anchoring of the epigenetic shift, and the knowledge that something life-changing is about to occur.
Yours,
Ash
P.S. The Mythosomatic Sanctuary still has the gates propped open for enrollment through October 13th. We begin on the 14th with our community meet-and-greet call, and then start our DNA immersion soon after. There's still time to step inside and make yourself at home.