The world as you experience it through your senses is not an accurate rendition of the world, but a subjective representation of reality – a *hallucination* – filtered and constructed by your brain. This hallucination, and the way that your brain constructs it, is optimized for survival in a very specific environment – the African savanna, tens of thousands of years ago. It is not optimized for the modern human living in a modern environment.

I argue for a drawing of the body that includes all beings — humans, plants, animals, and bacteria. This also means thinking about the *being of being*. It means acknowledging that everything that *is*, comes into being through both our bodies and not only ours. To think of the drawing of the body is to acknowledge that everything is entangled in relations with humans and with nonhumans.

The sun is your friend, src of all life. The moon guides the tides that cleanse & nourish us. Earth is our mother. We are her offspring & we share w her a common birth & death; we live as she lives, from sunlight & rain; we die as she dies, into the ground from which we were born Whenever you look at the bright yellow sun, remember only the yellow, only the brightness, and not the pain;
Whenever you gaze at the full moon, remember;
Whenever you look at the golden finger of God's light, remember;