Oracular Bodies: A collective praxis of futuring

Cheryl Hsu, Cassie Robinson, and Vanessa Reid

Sometimes we encounter those who seem to live in the gap between worlds. Their bodies are more transparent—diaphanous, flickering in the liminal fascia between many planes of reality. They see and fall in love with unimaginable potential. They try to whisper to us about it, even if we don’t understand. They are faithful to a different kind of clarity and integrity. When they communicate through silence, strange riddles, and koans, it is with gravity and potency that stirs something deep: a remembrance of the future.

If, in accordance with the panarchy cycle, our culture is presently in the Omega Ω phase —a back-loop time of release and re-organisation—what is the unique design praxis called for in this time between worlds? As we navigate this back-loop reality together, things get very weird and non-linear. We learn to surrender to our not-knowing; we remember how to listen to the quiet, sacred wisdoms that arise in our more-than-human entanglements. Rather than orienting from “vision” or what we can clearly see inside the cone of light of the visible, we learn to feel our way via an uncanny “sensing” in the deep, dark territories of the invisible. It is in the gaps between where transversal ruptures into new futures may be born.

To be an Oracular Being is:

• To open your soul-body to the gap; to become a porous channel of temporal streams and currents.
• To encounter latent potential; to beckon and connect with furtive futures that impregnate you with vision.
• To utter from that unspeakable place of paradox; to declare your visions to the world, transforming your body into a portal to the future.