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"Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces off statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with it, it is an often murderous substance. We call it water."
• Bill Bryson, 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'

I've always thought that many of the psych-soul-logical attributes our collective mind has put upon the 4 Elements arose originally from observing or being affected by their physical manifestations; which in a very Celtic way, will always have a side and a counter-side.
Water, for example, can be both the broth of Life or the taker of it. It can be a gentle stream or a dark reflection or your deepest, darkest Self. I wonder how much of the idea of Water as a healing medium originally arose not necessarily from the physical benefits but from the realization of what happens when one brings the light of awareness into the unacknowledged parts of oneself.

Who looks back at you when you stare into Water's depths? What lurks in the obscure fathoms below? Can you find some sort of healing if you dare to swim in the dark waters of your Deep Mind?

Water can go along quietly, and yet it can be sharp. It falls and it rises, ebbs and flows. It cautions us against becoming stagnant, and it shows us who we really are.

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"Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces off statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with it, it is an often murderous substance. We call it water."
• Bill Bryson, 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'

I've always thought that many of the psych-soul-logical attributes our collective mind has put upon the 4 Elements arose originally from observing or being affected by their physical manifestations; which in a very Celtic way, will always have a side and a counter-side.
Water, for example, can be both the broth of Life or the taker of it. It can be a gentle stream or a dark reflection or your deepest, darkest Self. I wonder how much of the idea of Water as a healing medium originally arose not necessarily from the physical benefits but from the realization of what happens when one brings the light of awareness into the unacknowledged parts of oneself.

Who looks back at you when you stare into Water's depths? What lurks in the obscure fathoms below? Can you find some sort of healing if you dare to swim in the dark waters of your Deep Mind?

Water can go along quietly, and yet it can be sharp. It falls and it rises, ebbs and flows. It cautions us against becoming stagnant, and it shows us who we really are.