Burn Morels - The Psychopomp

Psychopomp

[sahy-koh-pomp], noun

a person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world

every once in a while, the psychopomp emerges from the depths of the underworld

to remind us that to be created by this Earth is to also be destroyed.

that all of us,

in order to transition to the afterlife,

where we become the “more-than-life”,

all that is left of us on this earth

is the stillness…

but we do not walk into the spirit realm alone, whether we are tree, honeybee, or chipmunk, elk or cougar, trillium or moss, for all is swallowed by fire.

and the ferryman moves us lovingly across the river of Life to the otherside, cell by cell as our vessel decomposes… balance being restored here where once we dwelled, breathed, and loved.

metabolization, digestion, absorption - it is all alchemy. and mycelium the alchemist.

a symphony of tendrils transmuting and transforming one form of life to the next. like they have for nearly 800 million years.

they know our bodies, and every single cell and atom that comprises them more than our mothers, our fathers, our lovers, ourselves.

burn morels - the psychopomp.

read more in “Bodies of Land Issue #002: Threads of Connection Interwoven in the Earth”.