Deep Hot Biosphere Meditation

Begin in a comfortable position, either sitting or laying down. Darken the room and use earplugs to reduce outside noises.

Breathe normally and with intent. You are getting heavier and heavier, and gently moving down through the floor, through the layers of earth beneath you, slowly descending into the earth.

As you descend, your body contracts to a single celled organism. The deeper you travel, the warmer the earth becomes, until you are four miles below ground, bathing in the waters between spaces in solid rock. Time slows as you and your bretheren, the dominant life forms on this planet bask in the secure liquid warmth of the Earth Mother. You are in a sightless world, where information is carried by viruses and the upwelling chemistry of the earth. You are virtually immortal, reproducing possibly once in a thousand years.

As you float deep in underground waters you are kin to all living things on the paper thin surface of the world. Countless ages ago you and your kin replenished life on the surface when meteorite bombardment and volcanic action sterilized the surface.

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