Thigh Will Be Done: The Angelish of the Body

Most of us are aware of the parallel between the words I and eye. Our personality, our sense of self, is an expression of perspective: Eye see the world from my own point of view.

Ears hear (here) keep us present. Our hearing is our here-ring ­ the circle of life which defines our place.

The nose knows. It is not only air and necessary oxygen, or at a more subtle level prana, which pours in through the nostrils (nose trails), but the environment as a whole. Odors are O-doors ­ openings to all that surrounds us. While the sinus is the psi-in-us ­ the ‘psychic’ or ‘psi-kick’ translators of the messages of that surrounding world.

Our hair is our in-hair-itance. A thick and luxurious growth of hair rising from the top of the head then spreading down toward earth is a sensual (sense-you-all) connection and reminder of our earthly origins, of all the bodies ­ dust-to-dust, earth-to-earth ­ which have gone before us and prepared the ground for this present vehicle we inhabit. While the bald head of a Holy Man or Nun might reflect heavenly aspirations to rise above the earthly life.

The chin is the chi-in, or vital force within. In oriental medicine the chin is considered a reflex area of the buttocks. As the buttocks area of the body frames the base of the torso, and hold the vital life energies, so the chin frames and holds the vitality of the head.

Our throat is our throw-at ­ the vehicle for the words, wyrds, spellings, castings of spells we throw at the world in order to bring it under our spell.

The shoulders shoulder our burdens. The arms arm us for peace or war. The hands handle (hand all) our weapons and tools.

A chest is a container. At the center of our chest is the heart ­ or he-art (heaven art) of being human (hue-man; the colorings of our art). From the heart pour the art-eries which bring fresh oxygen and nurturants to the body. This is the art of living well. Llving in toxic environments, breathing dirty air, eating denatured food is bad art - leading to the clogged art-eries, or art-areas, which threaten us. The veins try in vain, or ‘veinity’, to detoxify the cells (imprisonments) of bad art-ery. (Art-ery was more directly expressed in older English forms, when the question ‘who are you’ was rendered more accurately as ‘who art though’ ­ a way of asking ‘what art of living do you practice.”)

The stomache ­ stow-make ­ stores or stows the foods we eat, converting or re-making them into forms digestible to us. This job is continued in the intestines ­ in, test, in’s ­ which test what is to be kept as part of us, what is to be rejected. The lower intestines descend into the groin ­ grow-in ­ where liver (live ‘r die?) continues separating us from non-us.

Placed at the back of our body, just as it states, is the back ­ our past. Other animals have tails at the bottoms of their spines which extend behind (into he past), and are used for balance in moving from the past to the future. Humans have tales, from their brains, at the top of he spine, which accomplish the same thing. The spine is spy-in, for as any good Chiropractor, reflexologist or ayurvedic healer can tell you, each vertebra of he spine tells the story of a given area of the body. We need only ‘spy-in’ to hear the tale.

At the bottom of our groin (grow-in) is our sex (Sea X; sea of unknown possibilities) which creates the Kin-Key of new life variations. The Kin-Key is turned when the penis (pee-in-us) is inserted into the vagina, or venus (vee-in-us). This results in a new foetus (feet us; feat us; the accomplishment of a new form or body for our collective Earth-Walk).

Behind the groin is our rear, ass, butt, buns or hips. Just as bread or buns from a bakery hold a storage of energy, so do our buns hold our vitality. To put those vital energies to use is the purpose of a bun dance (abundance). Yet a bun dance also has an end, and leads ultimately to ass end dance (ascendance). That is, the dance of physical (fizz I call) life once again becomes the dance of Spirit.

Our butts are our ‘buts’ ­ what we reject. (To the grain: I love your seed, butt not your husk; to the fish, I love your protein, but not your bones.) We accept the seed as beginning; butt we reject the indigestible husk ass end.

So long as we remain embodied, the energy of a bun dance passes through the hips (hip, hip, hooray!) and into the thighs. Which are the pistons which drive the body forward on its Earth-Walk. The power of Spirit becomes the empowerment of flesh. Thigh will be done!

And yet we all have needs. Or ‘kneed’s’. That which drives us to our knees, and teaches us humility. In complete acknowledgment of our needs, our forehead (fore head; our fantasies of grandeur, our thoughts of where we are head-ed) are then brought to ground, to a renewed communion with earth. This is the true meaning of Islamic and some forms of Buddhist prayer ­ to be brought to our needs and discharge our fantasies of grandeur into the earth. Leaving aside any mask-you-line pre-tensions which may have occurred in Muslim practice, it is also very much an expression of the belief of the Islamic world that the materialism and racial prejudices of Western values will be brought down. That Westerners too will be forced to their knee(d)s.

Which, continuing down the body, brings our attention to our feet. Our feet are ‘feats’ ­ accomplishments. The basic feat of staying alive requires being in the right place at the right time, staying grounded, keeping our ‘feet on the ground’. If we lose that grounding, that right relationship to the earth and our own destiny, we can be de-feated (de-feeted).

In this society, in which we all live in the future of a perpetually expanding economy and the ‘American Dream’ of upward mobility, we have to ‘stay on our toes’ to ‘keep ahead of the Joneses’ (or the Chinese). Our toes are what tows us forward and onward - our hopes and dreams but also our greed, our fear, our ambition - never at peace with where we are. This perpetual forward tilt (embodied in female fashion as high heels and painted ­ pain-afflic-ted - toes) destroys the symmetry of our earth alignment and the rhythm of our Earth-Walk.

So we become sick. De-feeted in our attempt to remain on our toes, we fall back and become ‘down at the heels’. We are in need of healing, or ‘heeling’. Our healing occurs only when our earth-walk returns to a rocking ‘heal-and-toe’ rhythm; when we are able to ‘spring off our toes’ into the air of ideas, ideals, hopes and dreams, yet still ‘land on your feet’ (feat) of concrete and practical accomplishment. That is, when we drop back out of our anxious arched postures and into acceptance of our true ‘sole’ purpose. That is when we ‘find our souls’.

Souls are our immortality, our most spiritual selves. Yet they are also our most physical selves, for they express our uniqueness only when we can express our function as part of a greater whole. The person who ‘has soul’ expresses vitality and zest for life because s/he is nurtured by the earth, and gives back to it. The soul is the sole ­ the center-point of our earth connection.

And so Angelish connects the Body to the Sole.