Who Do You Think You Are?

Dirk Fleischmann

The you who you think you are does not exist.

— Alan Watts

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At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing with which I am not linked.

We should return to the body in order to create spirit again; without body there is no spirit because spirit is a volatile substance of the body.

The body is the alembic, the retort, in which materials are cooked, and out of that process develops the spirit, the effervescent thing that rises.

Nietzsche returned to himself, isolated himself from the whole world, crept into his own retort and underwent this process.

Then suddenly he discovered that he was filled with a new orgiastic enthusiasm which he called his experience of Dionysus, the god of wine.

You see, that is the spirit.

~Carl G. Jung

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“I think the task before us is to re-learn what it means to walk as if everywhere is a temple…To sing back into the landscape through our hearts and through our steps so that we can again remember what it means to walk in kinship…