The Field of The Unseen

David Price
4 min readMay 14, 2024
Picasso

All that is visible

needs to grow beyond itself

and extend into the field

of the unseen

— I Ching

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The Indian culture such as the great warrior, Crazy Horse, believed in lying their deceased on scaffolds, wrapping them in buffalo blankets. There to be exposed to the elements and delivered over a year or two back to nature. Then to come back as buffalo grass, and eaten by the buffalos, which would be eaten by the Sioux, thus completing the cycle. Versus the Anglo belief of burial in a metal casket preventing breakdowns over a longer time…

— Honovi Branham

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It is this feeling of nothingness which turns the human heart into an empty cup into which the wine of immortality is poured. It is this state of bliss which every truth-seeking soul yearns to attain.

~Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Animals choose to come into our lives. They are part of our karma and we are part of theirs.

Sometimes they find themselves abandoned or wandering, in the middle of a road or in danger, in the heart of the night; sometimes they find themselves at the front door, as fate commands them; sometimes they come from

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.