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You will find a spattering of slightly unfamiliar use of English throughout. I have deliberately used terms (such as relationality, mutuality, meaning-making) that imply a mobile process rather than a fixed "thing".
Because the Living body is not a thing – it is a continuous process from well before the moment of the first spark of cell division to well after the last breath leaves the mouth. Organic life is a process that has an atomic continuity back to the very origins of the physical universe; exists in a continuity of Life that goes back a few billion years, at least as far as the archaeo-bacterium that was the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). It exhibits a continuity in which, like a river, the overt appearance hardly varies, but everything continuously changes and adapts. It finds its optimum position in the Landscape it flows through; occupies a position between the soft moist darkness of the Earth and the brightness of the sky and Heavens, reflecting the light from an infinity of stars; and finds companionship in everything else living.
