Framework 02 · The core
A map of how soul, nervous system, body, mind, identity, relationships, and world continually shape one another.
Soul, mind, nervous system, body, identity, relationships — these are not the parts of you. They are the shapes life is taking in you, right now. Each one wants to belong; each one carries something the others cannot.
What lives below — soil, water, ancestry — is no less you than what reaches toward the light. The roots are where the tree begins. You did not arrive in the world from nowhere; you grew here, out of all of this.
Wholeness begins when nothing in you is left out. When the parts stop competing for who gets to be real, and the roots, trunk, and canopy remember they are one tree.
You are not separate from what you grow inside.
A soul, in a body, in a nervous system, in a forest of other living systems.
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