07 August 2025 - Thursday The Nine Threads of Perception Weaving the Body’s Senses into the One Heart of the Earth Through the Wisdom of Kimoon K’uxlaal The Weaving of Many into One Heart

07 August 2025 - Thursday

The Nine Threads of Perception

Weaving the Body’s Senses into the One Heart of the Earth

Through the Wisdom of Kimoon K’uxlaal

The Weaving of Many into One Heart

“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”

A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands

from the Earth Remembers Series

Begin to open to this perspective:

the challenges we naturally encounter in urban landscapes

can be held and transformed

through the sacred presence of the land,

even here, even now.

These are the Seven Tz’utujiil Maya Landscapes,

seen through the eyes of the city:

• The Three Volcanoes — reflected in any form of rocks, boulders, sidewalks, or concrete within the urban terrain.

• The Lake — found in any body of water in the city: a pond, river, drainage canal, reflecting pool, or stream.

• The Forest of Trees — alive in any gathering of two or more trees, standing in relationship within your neighborhood.

• The Cornfields — present in any garden that grows vegetables, fruit, flowers, or herbs — even in pots or planters.

• The Moonflower (Spirit of Toloache) — seen in any flowering plant or green being that grows in unexpected cracks, pots, parks, or corners of beauty.

• The Cloud Forest — revealed in moments of mist, fog, dew, or moisture on windows, grass, or air within the city.

• The Mountains — present in any hill, rise, or flat stretch of land that invites you to walk, rest, or breathe into the Earth.

We learn to receive these places

and let them weave us.

Even in a city, the Presence of Light within these landscapes

can meet the inner nature of your body and of your Voice 1 dialogues of your Mind.

Wherever there is Voice 1 dialogues of suffering, pain, challenges, or emotional reactivity. Like fear or anger.

This weaving of the Heart Within the land and the Heart Within your body

supports you as you walk through life —

in healing, in renewal, in quiet transformation.

This is Kimoon K’uxlaal —

the Weaving of Many into One Heart.

Where the heart within the landscapes

meets the heart within your pain,

and together,

they create a path of:

• Repair

• Healing

• Regeneration

• Rejuvenation

• Renewal

…and the emergence of something new —

the Light of Unknown Possibilities.

Let this new way of being held

change how you walk in the world.

Let it support not just your feet,

but your whole life.

The First Weaving of Light - A Receiving of Kimoon K’uxlaal

This image above, of the inner cellular light

is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —

the great weaving of many into the One Heart.

It is the weaving of the Heart Within your body,

with the Heart Within the Seven Sacred Landscapes

of the Tz’utujiil Maya world:

• The Three Volcanoes

• The Lake

• The Forest of Trees

• The Cornfields

• The Spirit of the Moonflower

• The Cloud Forest

• The Mountains

And it is the weaving of both of these

into the Heart Within Voice 1 —

the quiet place beneath the pain, the ache, the suffering.

The part of Voice 1 that is still willing to receive light.

This is the first wave of weaving:

It begins not with thought, but with a simple act of asking to receive. Where we can begins to feel within our cellular light can be weaved within the Light within the Heart of the Land that holds our inner light for the Renewal of our justified anger.

Place your hand gently over your heart.

Let the skin feel the warmth of your own presence.

Breathe.

And whisper this from the inside:

“Heart Within me,

I am ready to receive

the cellular light

of these sacred landscapes.

Let your weaving come into me.

Let your light be known in my bones.

I welcome the light of the land

into the heart of my body.”

Speak it once.

Then rest.

Rest in the quiet knowing

that the weaving has already begun.

That the light from the Lake,

the breath from the Cloud Forest,

the deep stillness of the Mountains,

the gentle root of the Cornfields,

the heat of the Volcanoes,

the bloom of the Moonflower,

the standing wisdom of the Trees —

—is already entering and awakening your cells.

This is Kimoon K’uxlaal:

Not an idea, but a living act of being woven.

Of letting the many forms of Heart

gather into one sacred body of light.

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This is a ceremonial reflection on the nine senses, seen through the Tz’utujiil Maya way of living — through Kimoon K’uxlaal, the sacred Weaving of Many into One Heart. This piece honors each of the nine senses as a living thread of perception, not just physiological capacities, but as sacred pathways of connection between the inner body and the living soul of the Earth.

Each sense is experienced not in isolation, but in weaving — across the sacred landscapes of Santiago Atitlán — where the mountains, volcanoes, forest, cornfields, cloud forest, Moonflower, and lake each speak to us in their own language of light.

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The Nine Threads of Perception

Weaving the Body’s Senses into the One Heart of the Earth

Through the Wisdom of Kimoon K’uxlaal

The Weaving of Many into One Heart

In the Tz’utujiil Maya way of living, perception is not a private experience.

It is not something that happens only in the brain.

Perception is a relationship.

A thread.

A shared breath between the human body and the spirit of the land.

There are nine sacred threads of this shared perception—

Nine senses that allow us to participate in the living fabric of Earth.

Each sense is a thread.

Each thread weaves the inner cellular light of the body

into the outer cellular light of the land.

And when these threads are woven together—

through the heart, the bones, the breath—

they become the remembering

of the One Heart.

This is Kimoon K’uxlaal—

The weaving of the many into one

in relationship, in reverence, in light.

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The Nine Sacred Threads of Sensing

1. Sight – The Light of Inner Vision

To see is not only to use the eyes.

It is to receive light.

It is to perceive the living presence within all things.

True sight is the ability to see the cellular light within form—the radiance within tree, water, sky, and face.

In the Tz’utujiil way, sight is sacred because it initiates communion.

We do not look at things. We see with them.

2. Hearing – The Listening of the Heart

Hearing is more than sound.

It is the sensing of vibration, intention, spirit.

To hear is to receive the songs of the birds, yes,

but also to receive the unspoken stories held in stone, wind, and silence.

This sense lives not only in the ears, but in the bones and heart.

3. Smell – The Memory of Earth

Smell is the breath of memory.

It is how the Earth tells us its mood, its season, its presence.

The smoke of copal, the scent of wet soil, the whisper of flowers—these are not background.

They are messages, reminders, invocations.

Smell is how the body listens to time.

4. Taste – The Intimacy of Belonging

Taste is the act of becoming one.

When we eat maize, we become the maize.

When we taste the bitterness of a healing plant, we receive its story.

Taste is the sense of communion.

It allows the Earth to become part of our flesh.

5. Touch – The Sacred Contact

Touch is not limited to the skin.

Touch is the way we experience the world as real, as alive.

The feeling of bark beneath fingers, wind on the cheek, water across the feet—these are prayers of presence.

To touch is to honor.

To feel with reverence.

6. Thermoception – The Warmth and Cold of Living Breath

This is the sense of temperature.

But more deeply—it is the feeling of breath through the world.

The warmth of sun, the cool of morning mist.

These are not passive perceptions.

They are how the Earth greets us.

How we know when to open, when to shelter, when to pray.

7. Nociception – The Message of Pain

Pain is not punishment.

Pain is a messenger.

It says: “Here is where healing wants to come.”

In the Tz’utujiil way, pain is honored as a signal, a turning point, a teacher.

It connects the inner body to the outer rupture,

and asks us to soften, to listen, to reweave.

8. Proprioception – The Sense of Our Shape in Space

This is the sense of where we are—

how our limbs move, how our spine holds, how we walk in relation to the ground.

It is the sense of embodied prayer.

It lets us walk in rhythm with the world,

to feel the Earth as an extension of our own being.

9. Balance – The Dance of Centering

Balance is not stillness.

Balance is the sacred dance between opposites.

It is how we find the heart between leaning and falling,

between tension and flow.

Balance lives in the inner ear—yes—

but also in the heart, in the joints, in the way we listen to gravity.

To be in balance is to be in relationship.

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The Weaving of the Nine Senses

through the Seven Sacred Landscapes

Each of these senses awakens more fully in relationship with the sacred landscapes of Atitlán.

Each landscape offers a distinct light-thread—

a unique quality of perception, a specific teaching through the body.

Let us walk through the seven landscapes,

and listen to how the nine senses are woven into wholeness through them.

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1. The Three Volcanoes (San Pedro, Atitlán, Tolimán)

Fire. Foundation. Origin.

• Sight: Perceive the golden thread of fire within your spine. See the deep light in the bones of the land.

• Hearing: Listen to the silent pulse of stone. The volcano speaks in silence.

• Smell: The scent of warm earth, ash, ancestral fire.

• Taste: Taste the memory of minerals in spring water.

• Touch: Feel the ground’s firmness beneath your feet—an anchor.

• Thermoception: Warmth rising through the soles, a sun beneath your skin.

• Nociception: The ache of too much striving—calling for grounded rest.

• Proprioception: You stand tall. Your spine becomes the mountain.

• Balance: Rootedness. Centered in your being.

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2. The Lake

Mirror. Depth. Grief and Beauty.

• Sight: See the sky in the water. See your own reflection as the Earth sees you.

• Hearing: Hear the lapping waves as heartbeat, as breath.

• Smell: The scent of rain, algae, prayer.

• Taste: Salt, minerals, the tears of time.

• Touch: The water across your skin—like the Grandmother’s hand.

• Thermoception: Cool in the morning, warmth by midday—shifting emotions.

• Nociception: The ache of memory rising from the deep.

• Proprioception: Floating—learning to surrender control.

• Balance: The dance of being held.

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3. The Forest of Trees

Breath. Listening. Presence.

• Sight: See the dance of light through leaves.

• Hearing: The layered symphony of birds, wind, and silence.

• Smell: The scent of bark, moss, sacred sap.

• Taste: Bitterness of bark, sweetness of fruit.

• Touch: Roughness of tree bark, softness of moss.

• Thermoception: The temperature shifts with each step.

• Nociception: The tension in your body dissolving in the forest’s presence.

• Proprioception: A rootedness with every step.

• Balance: The quiet calibration of every breath.

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4. The Cornfields

Growth. Ancestral Nourishment. Rhythm.

• Sight: The colors of the four corns—red, yellow, black, white—reflecting humanity.

• Hearing: The rustling of leaves—a song of sustenance.

• Smell: The dry sweetness of husks.

• Taste: Cornmeal, tortillas, roasted maize—memory on the tongue.

• Touch: The velvet of kernels, the strength of stalks.

• Thermoception: Sun-warmed soil, sweat on skin.

• Nociception: The pain of labor and the joy it feeds.

• Proprioception: Your body working in rhythm with the land.

• Balance: Steady steps between rows—repetition as prayer.

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5. The Moonflower (Spirit of Toloache)

Shadow. Vision. Mystery.

• Sight: Perceive what is unseen—glow within the dark.

• Hearing: Hear what is not spoken—intuition.

• Smell: The intoxicating breath of the sacred flower.

• Taste: Bitterness that opens the inner door.

• Touch: Air on skin like breath from another world.

• Thermoception: Cool air in shadow—mystery made tangible.

• Nociception: The edge of fear softening into trust.

• Proprioception: Moving carefully, sensing the unknown.

• Balance: Inner alignment while walking unseen paths.

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6. The Cloud Forest

Mist. Breath. Trust.

• Sight: Blurred edges—sight through softness.

• Hearing: Drops, distant birds, your own breath.

• Smell: Moss, wet leaves, ancient rain.

• Taste: Fog on your tongue—thin as memory.

• Touch: Wet branches, air on arms—light as cloth.

• Thermoception: Shifting warmth and coolness—constant embrace.

• Nociception: The soft ache of not-knowing.

• Proprioception: Your steps become careful, slow, reverent.

• Balance: Each step is a conversation with the invisible.

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7. The Mountains

Vastness. Silence. Becoming.

• Sight: Horizon within. You see far, but feel deeper.

• Hearing: Wind. Space. The sound of spaciousness.

• Smell: Stone, lichen, cloud.

• Taste: Simplicity—air, mineral, presence.

• Touch: The texture of rocks—the Earth’s slow breath.

• Thermoception: Cold clarity—sharp, awakening.

• Nociception: The ache of altitude that reminds you: breathe.

• Proprioception: Every movement becomes ceremony.

• Balance: You learn stillness in motion.

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Conclusion: The Loom of Perception

These nine senses are not just faculties.

They are sacred threads.

And the body is not merely a perceiver—

It is the loom upon which the Earth remembers itself.

In the Tz’utujiil way, to perceive is to relate.

To relate is to weave.

And to weave is to walk the path of Kimoon K’uxlaal—

The One Heart made visible

through how we see, feel, taste, smell, hear, and hold

this living, glowing world.

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