The waters inside the earth and us
THE NATURE OF US
A massive ocean has been found under the Earth’s crust, and there is a whole other ecosystem under the surface of the Earth.
Mysteries are being revealed. We are learning more about the earth. And we are learning more about our own bodies.
There is an interplay between the surface water of our planet and the ocean underneath the Earth’s crust. There is also continuous interplay between the waters within our bodies and the waters of the earth beyond our skin, as anyone can feel living in a dry versus wet climate.
Each wave of the ocean is different, each moment we are shifting and changing. Our brain is 85% water, our blood is 93% water, our muscles are 75% water. Water mediates the process of cellular respiration, in which nutrients move through the cellular membrane and toxins are released. Inside we are in continual movement. We receive light through our eyes and skin that affect this process, our circadian rhythms are fluctuating through light.
In the news, a massive ocean:
A massive ocean has been found under the Earth’s crust, and there is a whole other ecosystem under the surface of the Earth.
Findings show that between 410 to 660 kilometers below the Earth’s surface, there is another water reservoir. Scientists believe that the water cycle involves all the water on Earth, circulating between the atmosphere, oceans, and surface waters.
The deep water cycle
Water extends deep into Earth, as the bottom of the ocean’s crust contains slides, called subducts under neighboring tectonic plates of crust.
Scientists, who were studying earthquakes when seismometers picked up on shockwaves under the Earth’s surface, have found subducts sink into the Earth’s mantle, carrying water. They came to this conclusion by performing a combination of seismological observations, geodynamic modeling, and high-pressure and temperature melting experiments.
Furthermore, scientists found that something was amiss in what they thought was solid rock. It turns out that there is interplay between surface water and the ocean underneath the Earth’s crust. This mantle transition zone acts as a large water reservoir through which water cycles.
A different state of water under the Earth’s crust
Underneath the crust, water is absorbed by a mineral and then travels back to the surface. It can travel through magma, erupting from underwater volcanoes or as a result of the movement of tectonic plates.
The mantle rock is called ringwoodite, a magnesium silicate mineral made from high pressure. This mineral was discovered in the 1960s on a meteorite as well as recently under the Earth’s surface.
It is a plastic (meaning fluid) mineral, and its mobility causes it to change structure. It plays a crucial role in mantle dynamics. Water is stored inside its crystals in a sponge-like state, which isn’t either solid, liquid, or gas.
Underneath the surface, scientists discovered a whole new ecosystem by turning over volcanic crust on the bottom of the sea in the Pacific using an underwater robot roughly 2,500 meters below sea level. Worms, snails, and chemosynthetic bacteria all thrive in places previously thought impossible.
Geophysicist Steve Jacobsen said, “The ringwoodite is like a sponge, soaking up water, [and] there is something very special about the crystal structure of ringwoodite that allows it to attract hydrogen and trap water.”
This mineral can characteristically absorb large quantities of water at especially high rates. If it were composed of even only one percent of the compound (of water), it would still contain more water than all the oceans on the Earth’s surface combined.
Recent discoveries such as this show how little we currently actually know about our planet. The sea keeps revealing its mysteries, as it has always done so previously.
https://greekreporter.com/2024/02/05/ocean-found-earths-crust/?fbclid=IwAR3WRukAPQEEFOCsdvlSxB9hBEejICeYFJmrrrehINFTSdOoAihq1
Mystery and the Unexpected:
The sea keeps revealing its mysteries. And like the sea, we are highly rhythmic and improvisational, moving and shifting, evolving with the earth, becoming increasingly receptive. Like the earth we are creating ourselves anew, and what is within us is a vital part of that process.
When we feel into the plant and animal of our bodies, our thirst for water and delight in it become obvious. We are swimming in the waters of the earth. When we contact the elemental, the forms and species of the planet, our senses are slowly energized and awakened by shifting rhythms and patterns - we are inherently polyrhythmic. David Abram in Spell of the Sensuous writes that we have co-evolved with the rest of the shifting earth and forms . . .
their rhythms and forms are composed of layers and layers of earlier rhythms, and in engaging them our senses are led into an inexhaustible depth that echoes of our own flesh. The patterns of the stream’s surface as it ripples over the rocks, or on the bark of an elm tree,or a cluster of weeds, are all composed of repetitive figures that never exactly repeat themselves . . . drawing our awareness in unexpected and unpredictable directions.
We are learning, exploring, and discovering more of ourselves through our resonance with water and the earth. The hidden is being incrementally revealed. Rumi speaks of this secret we sometimes know in Water Stories:
Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we have to be walking in a garden to know it.
The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal
the light that’s blazing inside your presence.
Water, stories, the body,
all the things we do, are mediums
that hide and show what is hidden.
Study them,
and enjoy this being washed
with a secret we sometimes know,
and then not.
The light that is blazing in your presence. We are earth and water penetrated by the sun and stars. As we become receptive to the love of the universe, to our inexhaustible depths, we come alive to our infinite nature.
The ocean extends through the water reservoir within the inner earth:
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface. The finding could help explain where Earth’s seas came from.
The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth’s surface and its core.
The huge size of the reservoir throws new light on the origin of Earth’s water. Some geologists think water arrived in comets as they struck the planet, but the new discovery supports an alternative idea that the oceans gradually oozed out of the interior of the early Earth.
“It’s good evidence the Earth’s water came from within,” says Steven Jacobsen of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The hidden water could also act as a buffer for the oceans on the surface, explaining why they have stayed the same size for millions of years.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core/
We are still learning about the oceans of our planet, as well as the waters of our own bodies. Both the earth and our bodies are in process, continually revealing their fluidity. Our interconnection can be a lived experience, as we surrender to our fluid nature and let go of any fixed identity. Life is an adventure to explore.
Just a little more food for thought, from the glossary of Oracle Girl.org.
Ocean. Cosmic light of the universe carried in the tides of the waters of our being. The cosmic consciousness of all beings fully purified.
I hope I have stimulated your senses and thinking about the mysteries of us!
From Rumi:
. . . Let the drop of water in you become a hundred might seas.
But do not think that the drop alone becomes the ocean.
The ocean, too, becomes the drop.
Thank you for joining me here today!
Sabrina Page, MA in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness I work with individuals and groups, with a focus on somatic inquiry and embodiment, to support you in living life fully, freely, and fluidly, intertwined with nature. As well, I have studied movement, dance, and astrology with some of the leading individuals in their fields. My private sessions are offered on zoom, phone, or in person in Bolinas, Ca.
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Ocean. Cosmic light of the universe carried in the tides of the waters of our being. The cosmic consciousness of all beings fully purified.
It is my sense that the inner seas of our own bodies, in the blood and lymph, cellular fluids and intracellular fluids, as well as the cerebrospinal fluids receive the light of the sun and stars.
Biological tubulation in the mitochondria a dynamic process of light within the cellular fluid. Light self propagates in water. This video which I have shared previously explains how light moves and chemical processes are formed.
love how you weave it all together to teach science.
or is "science" a bad word now? (oops)
Very cool, Sabrina. Thanks.