Interflow

Let us say we are a circle. The circle represents our being. Allow the circle to be two hemispheres. The circle is now two 180 degree arcs, each arcing from horizon to horizon. 

One of the hemispheres represents our inner world, the other the outer. Our inner world is our soul, our spirit, our imagery, our feeling, our invisible self that we believe others cannot see. The outer world is the realm of objects, of nature, of things and people.

These two hemispheres, connected yet separate, represent the dichotomous split we generally entertain without a second thought. The inner is me; the outer is you. The inner is private; the outer is public. The inner is spirit; the outer is flesh. The inner is familiar and claimed more as my domain. The outer is somewhat alien, strange, seen as beyond my control.

Exile is when the two hemispheres are experienced as separate arcs, never to meet. 

See the arcs, the hemispheres, as different colors. Perhaps one is blue, the other red. (Allow them to be the colors that feel most natural to you.) Consider that the circle begins to revolve and is picking up momentum. The blue begins to flow into the red, the red into the blue. Each arc opens to the energies of the other. You reclaim your merge-unity.

Now allow the spinning circle to surrender and open to the Above, to move upward into merge with the Divine, with The-One-That-Births-Us. The spinning circle is now a spinning whirlwind, a vortex of horizontal (circle) energies merging with the spiraling energies of above and below. We are receiving the energies of the Divine while opening to all around us.

We are no longer divided into the inner and the outer. We are not divided at all. We are a continuous interflow. Our sense of self expands to encompass all. We are THIS. 

THIS is Home.