My water brother, William E. Marks tells me that water forms and breaks its hydrogen bonds about one trillion times per second. That's amazing! This is the ultimate in short term relationships! Yet it is the exact property that is needed to allow water to flow and for us to enter into this liquid medium.
"We are but whirlpools in a river of ever flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message" -Robert Weiner, founder of Cybernetics
So water crystallizes and un-crystallizes one trillion times per second and this is what I'm calling "fluid fusion". All cellular transformation seems to occur in high energy, liquified states. For example, the almost complete metamorphosis from crawly catepillar to winged butterfly occurs as a dissolution of the old catepillar form into a semi-liquid goo within the pupa. Out of this cellular goo the beautiful butterfly is formed.
We humans have many names for high energy fluid states; ecstasy, bliss, orgasm, waves of pleasure....enlightenment, awakening, absorption, and so on. Perhaps this fluid fusion/dissolution is the creative engine of life.
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