My appendix... The world... Divided (Part 2)
Understanding America through a childhood appendicitis part 2
This is a continuation of My appendix... The world... Divided (Part 1).
Why do I have a headache right now?
It seems odd to ask the appendix that question, right?
Dear Adam -
It’s pretty simple. You’re thinking too much. You feel like you don’t know how to create an audience. You don’t know how to move forward with your book. With your life. And so you feel stagnant. But you’re stagnant because you’re just thinking thinking thinking. When really you need to let go and just start flowing. Thats what the bowels teach you right? To let go and start flowing. Whatever you don’t need needs to go. You need to let go of your doubt. Right here you have everything you ever needed, without the appendix. You can’t see that.
Now you’re blowing with the wind. There is no more flow than that. And from there you see that when the colon gets flushed you get flushed. The colon gets backed up and you get backed up. You are the body. You don’t need to protect yourself from the flow of life.
The prevailing medical theory is that the appendix supports the bowels, protecting them from a full “flush.” But I don’t have an appendix. So nothing’s protecting me from that full colon flush that might happen if I get sick or eat something I shouldn’t have. But my appendix (clearly the body at this point since I don’t have one) is pointing out that now I’m just more connected to all of my surroundings. Which we think of as the world. But really is the body.
When things are up, you go up. When they’re down, you go down. You are the wind. When you let go of the appendix, you understand the appendix was always the body. And the appendix is still here.
What I make of this is that there’s no reason to hang on. The term “appendix” comes from the Latin word “appendere,” which means “to hang upon.” But it’s almost like the appendix is saying, hang on to what—the body that you are? Let go and open up to the flow of life (the world) because that is the body. The entire body moves as one. There’s no need to hang onto the bowels. You are the body.
And since the body is the world, what would that say about America and the world?
America’s thinking too much. America feels like America doesn’t know how to create America. America doesn’t know how to move forward with America.
Of course we could say that about the world too…
America doesn’t know how to move forward with the world.
And so America feels America.
Which right now is stagnant. Unsure about how to move forward.
But America’s America because America’s just thinking thinking thinking.
Which right now makes America…
America’s just America America America.
Perhaps it should be world world world. Not thinking, not hanging on. Opening up.
When really America needs to let go and just start flowing.
Then America’s just world world world. Not thinking, not hanging on. Opening up.
Thats what the world teaches America right? To let go and start flowing. Whatever the world doesn’t need needs to go. America needs to let go of America’s world. The world has everything the world ever needed, without America. America can’t see that.
Now the world is blowing with America.
Where in this case America is the wind.
There is no more world than America. And from the world the world sees that when America gets flushed the world gets flushed. America gets backed up and the world gets backed up. America is the world. America doesn’t need to protect America from the world. When America’s up, the world goes up. When America’s down, the world goes down. The world is America. When America lets go of the world, America understands America was always the world. And America is still the world.
So I made America the wind but the world would work too wouldn’t it?
There is no more America than the world.
Everything always looks so different, but it’s not. If I could explain one thing to people it would be that. It is right in front of us all day every day. And we completely miss it.
And from America, America sees that when the world gets flushed America gets flushed. The world gets backed up and America gets backed up.
…The world’s America because America’s just America America America.
We think we’re so different. I think I’m so different. Because if that’s the world I see I am seeing myself.
And how does that translate to the body?
Now the bowels are blowing with the lungs. There is no more flow than the lungs. And from the bowels the brain sees that when the colon gets flushed the brain gets flushed. The brain gets backed up and the colon gets backed up. The brain is the body. The brain doesn’t need to protect the bowels from the flow of the body. When the lungs are up, the body goes up. When the lungs are down, the body goes down. The body is the lungs. When the brain lets go of the body, the brain understands the brain was always the body. And the brain is still here.
The brain will do what the bowels are doing. The bowels will do what the lungs are doing. Your breathing will be sh*t (I have too much fun with word play) if the bowels are backed up. And your bowels will be sh*t if you have short breath.
Now the lungs are blowing with bowels. There is no more flow than the bowels. And from the lungs the brain sees that when the lungs gets flushed the brain gets flushed. The lungs gets backed up and the brain gets backed up.
My headache!
I say again, it is all the body. But we only see parts.