Life Force

If there is life and it shows up in matter, then perhaps all matter has or is some measure of life. If consciousness is an emergent quality of the function of the brain, then consciousness is logically an emergent quality of the life force. Then any physical behavior is a behavior of the life force. If every physical process is a function of life force, then our own biological and psychological processes wouldn’t have much to distinguish them from gravity or light, would they? This might explain why life, as it’s commonly defined, would seem so oddly well suited to detect and interact with physical forces, light waves, sound waves, gravitic waves.

Life has not a mess of disjointed systems, but a single immense and diverse system. Your personal life, your personal energy, is connected to all the energy around you.

“We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.” Alan Chadwick (American proponent of organic gardening, 1909-1981)

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.” Martha Graham (American Dancer, Teacher and Choreographer of modern dance, 1894-1991)