Dirtbag Backbone (The Anthropology of The Future Pt. 5)

Overmind Anatomy.

"So here's the remedy you need: take a little spoon of sunshine, feels like it's gonna come from the inside...take a deep sip of The Milky Way - and everyday make sure you play."  -Realmedies, by Freddy Todd & Johnathan Santos

Rejoicing in my dirtbag backbone on a run.

As vertebrate mammals, we've got a spinal cord that connects the brain to the rest of the body.  This is how I know that my personal organism is a brain WITH a body - this crucial connection.  In the same way the brain is reminded of the body with the spine, it is essential that as humans we have a "dirtbag backbone."  This is an activity that one passionately commits to . . . something that gets you outside everyday - out in the open sky around plants and other animals - that reveals your connection to Mother Dirt.  We are sensory creatures that can plug in to laptops and VR goggles, but we are also actively motor-sculpted of dust & debris, and breathe in a vital atmosphere which absorbs through the inner-forest of the lungs. 

You may have already found your "dirtbag backbone" . . . it might be climbing, mushroom hunting, river-boating, surfing, or riding a bicycle.  For me it is predominantly trail-running.  It is something that makes your blood flow enthusiastically through the chambers of the drum-machine in your chest, and out to deliver the goods through the labyrinth of hollow vessels in every organ & each eyelid.  This "backbone" not only tells the truth that the homo Sapien is in unity with Earth, but also it is central to the form of character - to how the individual achieves identity.  It is something you could do without civilization even:  an ancient tangle with the woods & the wilds.  It is there even if you're broke - even if you sleep in a vehicle & feast on tins of sardines. . . you get outside and feel the fire coarse through your dirtbag backbone.  It breeds biomechanical rapture as the generosity of this habit feeds endorphins & endocannabinoids to your hungry, neurotransmitting grey matter. 

Gaia Vision.

As all of us shape the cultural habits of the future we're finding, let's not just rejoice in the dirtbag backbones we've found, but spread the idea to others evangelically!  You must have friends, family, or co-workers who haven't found their dirtbag backbone yet.  Encourage them to do as much.  Invite people to try a hike, run or climb with you who show some curiosity, but are perhaps slightly abash about their sedentary, plugged-in lifestyle.  Don't give up on folks!  Persistence breeds transformation.  Do not forget to marvel at what we're capable of on this planet.  In many science fiction stories and mythologies, beings of pure light are portrayed ("angels," "aliens," etc.)  If these exist, they likely can't do what we can do since we're not just on Earth, but earth is a part of our makeup.  There is deep vibration here. . . the capability for sound & music in our high-gravity Gaian playground.  We can show gratitude for getting a chance to be apart of this "walking-talking carbon-complex" by taking time everyday to hit the trail, climb the mountain, run the river, and surf The Flux through the ever-unwinding oblivion of Tomorrow. 

Shadow-Work