This book is an extention of the performance Seed Meditation. Above all else, Seed Meditation is a work about divine love. I feel moved to make this work because I see very few people consciously apply a rigorous notion of love to their lives. There is much confusion about what love is and there is little in our present cultural expression that entreats us to contemplate, practice, and emphasize divine love as a guiding principle. I believe love is an alchemical process made available to us through our own strife, suffering, and redemption. Much like the way a pure white light can be broken into a spectrum of colors, I believe that divine love is made up of many components. Seed Meditation presented me with the opportunity to break apart and define ten of these components and their corresponding processes, though surely there are many more. I wrote this book drawing from my own experiences having succumbed to the pitfalls, the pleasures, and the lessons contained in each process of revelation. It is important to note that this work is being created at a time of relentless humanitarian crises. For many months, the world has been bearing witness to abhorrent violations of life, liberty, and freedom of the Palestinian people. The visceral horrors of this genocide, the total transparent abuse of power, and the absolute failure of justice have generated a deeply felt sense of disorder and conflict that has been replicating itself on micro and macroscopic plains. Everyday, I pray for release from perpetual and merciless violence. I pray to whom? My praying hands are empty. Pressed together they have only each other. Within all this suffering, I find myself wanting and needing to release everything. In all this holding, I find myself wanting and needing to hold more. I feel called to find a way to be in a multiplicity of states, to branch out in all directions and find peace in expressions of evolution and diversity of life. I feel called to be in protest, to be in grief, to be in service, to be in joy, to be in attention, to be in care, to be in vigil, to be in ritual, to be in meditation, to be together, to be here intentionally, to publicly unfold with sustained effort in reverent celebration of being alive and out of necessity for love and humanity. I am repeatedly called to be alive.
Jemila MacEwan
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