Notes on Channeling the Lifeweb: A Consultation of Sorts

Newton Harrison

In a waking dream, soon after encountering a non-curable cancer, and 3 years after Helen passed. I had a form of channeling. I asked the web of life, do you have any rules?

1. Human, Human:

I have 1 rule from which all others spring. It enables the livingness of all and everything.

2. Human, Human:

I have gifted all living with intelligence. And how do you know this you may ask?

3. Human, Human:

All that lives knows how to continue. All that lives knows what is good for itself to continue and does so. All that lives knows what’s bad for itself and avoids it. These are intelligent choices.

4. Human, Human:

In order to accomplish this, I have also gifted all living things with a ring-pass-not which you call an ecotone. And, I have gifted all living things with free will to act as they will within the limitations of their ecotones in good part of their own creation. Rogue species as you have become perversely self-congratulating pleased that your system of consumption ignores anything that does not benefit itself.

5. Human, Human:

I have only one all-encompassing, ultimately unforgiving rule. That is, every species, without exception, in order to be part of my continuum, must give back as much or more than they take.

6. Human, Human:

When this is the condition of all living, my whole living system becomes more complexly auto-poetic.

7. Human, Human:

All of my 11 million species, so far and counting, with the exception of you, obey this rule to the benefit of all.

8. Human, Human:

There is an equation, a gift to you, in spoken terms, human, human, it is thus. The more you take from me, the more you impair my ability to continue. The more you reduce your own ability to continue, which is happening as we speak. If if you read the signs, your risk is growing exponentially.

9. Human, Human:

Therefore, it is not likely, unless you change quickly, that you will be able to continue. Not so for myself, after all, I have experience in these matters. I have regenerated, in 10 to 20 million year increments, from many extinctions.

10. Lifeweb, Lifeweb:

What are my species conditions for continuing?

11. Human, Human:

Shrink, cease and desist, reverse all your extractions and consumptions, all that interferes with your ability to give back more than you take. Accept limitation creatively, even gladly.

12. Human, Human:

Rejoin with me again, learn from your ancestors who lived their limitations to free will, as have your 11 million companion species.

13. Human, Human:

Shrink, and once again become your own niche in my universe of niches large and small. Then, like all other living species, I WILL BE YOU AND YOU WILL BE ME.

14. Human, Human:

Join with me. As all others do automatically, and as you must do consciously to be able to continue with me at all.

15. Human, Human:

If you pass away and the extinctions are extreme, I say again, it will only take me another 10 to 20 million years for a species like you to emerge again changed into the empathic being accepting of limitations and finally embodied with your own auto-poetic powers.

16. Human, Human:

It can be understood that I, the web of life, am indifferent to all the justices that you talk about in social and environmental terms, especially distressed by your belief in endless growth. My one rule is the rule of exchange as practiced by each of our companion species, with yourselves as the very destructive exception. All others participate in the infinity of exchanges which bring forth my domain of livingness.

The Epitaph: join with me.