Clarifying the wild heart of medicine : Metal

This article is part of a series by DH writer Jonathan Edwards. If you haven’t already, read about wood, fire and earth.) A fiber-optic cable. A vein of quartz. A snow-capped peak. A steel knife edge. Call it Metal or Mineral; it’s the element that connects and conducts, gleams and inspires. And it cuts, freeing the kernel from the chaff. Sharp and hard, clean and clear is Metal. An open channel between heaven and earth. Living Elements Before stepping into the shining realm of Metal, a brief reminder of the purpose of this series of articles. It is an invitation to approach the elements directly as living forces of nature, rather than abstractly as intellectual constructs; to deepen our relationships with them through honoring them as conscious beings, for in so doing we open space for their medicine to course through us.   Now for some this may sound like a stretch. Conscious beings? It’s true that from crystals to alloys to mountains, our images of Metal tend to be static. Bright, yes, even brilliant, but also hard, sharp, and cold. Not exactly bursting at the seams with life-force, seemingly. And yet this perception may have little to do with the Metal element itself and everything to do with us. They may not do so overnight, but crystals grow (most anyone at Breitenbush can tell you that). And as native peoples worldwide insist, mountains are themselves powerful sentient beings. Such thinking is nearly universal; modern Western cultures may be the first ...
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