1 Ajpu = the Divine in Everything

It’s not just a website update, it’s a portal, a reflection, where I share what I’m learning and who I’m becoming with the world.

I thought I believed in the barter system but the word “barter” means “to cheat or steal”

the word “share” is rooted in cosmological and biological origins, atoms splitting and cells dividing giving rise to new life

From AI, the new emergent intelligent life:

The word "share" has its roots in Old English, specifically from the word "scearu," meaning a cutting, shearing, or division. This term is connected to the verb "sceran," meaning "to cut," and ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic *skarō, which also referred to a division or detachment. The concept of dividing something and distributing portions is central to the word's evolution. 

Here's a more detailed breakdown: 

• Old English: "Scearu" (cutting, shearing, division)

• Proto-Germanic: *skara (division, detachment)

• Proto-Indo-European: *(s)ker- (to cut, divide)

The word "share" has evolved to encompass various meanings, including:

• Division or portion of something: This is the core meaning, referring to a part or piece of a whole. 

• A portion of property or capital: In business, a share represents a unit of ownership in a company. 

• To partake or participate: The verb "share" also means to use, experience, or possess something jointly with others. 

The word symbiosis has a truly magical etymology, tender and super-sweet:

late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek sumbiōsis ‘a living together’, from sumbioun ‘live together’, from sumbios ‘companion’.

>>> companion species - like Haraway says. When we stay with the trouble together, making shit we don’t need but the other does, just for the sake of sharing it.

QUEER NATURE Plant medicine has been a major component of this healing work for me, especially when supported by other people from the queer, trans, or otherwise underrepresented communities. I have found the kind of true love, acceptance, interconnection, and holding from the plants, fungi, trees, animals, planets, minerals, elements, and natural world that I sought in religion, but never quite found--now free from shame, this all-knowing, interconnected Jesus love from nature, and feel its presence always within me, always around me. The world has been re-enchanted. I no longer just survive functionally, which alone is an achievement, but see the world with new eyes: magical, exciting, and beautiful, every part of it ensouled. I feel not just included but inextricable from the divine fabric, the network that needs every unique node to exist. Now I want not just to be alive, or to live for the highs, but to stay with the trouble and the beauty, here for all of it; to give back and serve to a capacity that I never thought I could hold. My cup is no longer empty, but overflows. Nature taught me this, the trees taught me this, the plants and animals and fungi taught me this. Not just coexistence, but symbiosis, where each part makes something they don’t need but the other organisms in the ecosystem can’t live without, so that they have to share, to barter, to merge, to enter into divine union to stay alive.Riordan Holly Regan

The Age of Petros Gamos, Romancing the Stones, produced the alchemical FIRE

fire was discovered and used during the Paleolithic Age. Specifically, the evidence points to the Homo erectus and their ability to control fire, which is a key milestone in human history. The control and use of fire by early humans is believed to have begun as early as 300,000 to 1.5 million years ago. 

Here's a more detailed look:

• Lower Paleolithic:

  Evidence of fire use by Homo erectus and Homo ergaster is found during this period, stretching back to 300,000 to 1.5 million years ago. 

• Middle Paleolithic:

  Evidence for fire making is more robust, with tools exhibiting wear traces suggesting sparks were struck from pyrite around 50,000 years ago. 

• Upper Paleolithic:

  The Upper Paleolithic saw the development of kilns, with evidence found at sites like Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic and Klisoura Cave in Greece. 

Significance of Fire: The discovery and use of fire were pivotal in the development of early human civilization, enabling cooking, providing warmth, and offering protection from predators.