DENK – UND LESESTOFF AM MONTAGMORGEN ;-)
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… Diese physikalische Erkenntnis, die auf exakter wissenschaftlicher Methodik beruhen, stehen nun nicht ohne Bezug zur Welt da. Wir befinden uns hier mitten in der lebendigen Welt der Weltenaufgabe des Menschen. Betrachten wir zu dieser Aussage der Gravitationsmetamorphose. Wie oben beschrieben, handelt es sich hierbei um den Vorgang, der veranlaßt, daß etwas Schweres in die Leichte geht oder eben etwas Leichtes in die Schwere.
Das Lebendige wiederum findet seinen Ausdruck in einem fortwährenden Schwingen um eine Mittelebene. Dieses Schwingen dürfen wir uns in keinem Falle als eine sich wiederholenden, technisierte Form vorstellen. Im Lebendigen beobachten wir eine offene raum-leminskate, achtgemäße Form, die in in keinster Weise wiederholt. Auf der vorhin angesprochenen Mittelebene ist die Gravitation Null und auch die Levitation Null, und diese Situation kann man allgemein ausgedrückt als den Zustand der Schwebe, des Gleichgewichts bezeichnen. Im Lebendigen löst sich hier nun fortwährend Schweres in Leichtes auf, und es fällt fortwährend das Leichte in das Schwere.
Wilfried Hacheney. Organische Physik. S.70.
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The Magical Turnaround
Earlier I alluded to the movement when energy of the attacker, uke, is reversed. At that moment the uke receives the energy of the nage, the one who throws. When this move is executed correctly, the attacker experiences a sensation akin to astonishment or awe. Neither the physical nor the intellectual parts of us can process or digest the experience of total acceptance fast enough to organize against it or separate from it. In order for conflict to exist, for the attack to consumate itself, there has to be duality: a „you“ and a „me“. Someone has to attack someone else and someone has to defend himself or herself against the attack. At the moment when the nage fully accepts, agrees, and includes the uke, the duality, separation, and conflict cease to exist. This is the blend. Precisely in the middle of the blend is when the nage’s energy ist transformed from receptive to positive and in the same time instant uke’s energy shifts from positive to receptive.
Sounds easy enough, and the concept is not obscure, but the embodiment of it is something else altogether. To accept the other person’s power or intention fully, we need tremendously depth and an incredible strong center that can hold and tolerate the energy of another without needing to take control or loosing our balance. We need to be calm, loving, open, and able to perceive an eight of a second as plenty of time as we accept the attack, so we can feel the attacker’s energy shift, become open, then confused, when he finds nothing to go against. At that instant, we intend with our whole being the direction in which we like the uke to move. Our focus is so clear that it is like a magnet drawing the energy of uke towards our internal goal. The uke is amazed to find himself or herself flat on the mat.
Because this happened through acceptance and magnetism there is no hurt, only amazement. For those who have experienced this or something like it, it is an exquisite sensation. Ego and aggression are suspended and the natural movement between positive and receptive, masculine and feminine, flows like breath. Inside the vortex of swirling movement, we can feel and enjoy the sensation of intense power and gentleness. We can relinquish control an be moved by the breath of life.
Wendy Palmer. The intuitive Body. Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodyment and Aikido. P. 125-127.