The Chiasm

The life force meets orgasm… leading to a flash of creative light.

After I published my blog post on the Yin and Yang of Organisations, I received an email from Clint, who wrote:

“I’m sure you know that the line between is called a chiasm; It is both a barrier and a unifying force to hold the two as one. I see humans, and all sentient creatures in the chiasm, and indeed every atom and cell.”

Well, actually, I’d never heard of the chiasm, so I confessed as much, and asked for more detail. Clint replied:

“The visual is two elements, that are oppositely charged, coming into vicinity of each other and moving to unite. As they are each discrete, they are not allowed to become one. Essentially, they bounce off each other, then come back together and begin to spin around each other, faster and faster until they are about to implode when, in a flash of creative light, the chiasm comes into being, simultaneously holding the two elements apart and uniting them as one new entity.”

So this sent me off down a rabbit hole of chiasm-curiosity. I felt there was something profound here, tickling at my consciousness — maybe something to do with my affinity for the in-between places, the realms where worlds collide, or what Paul Wallace calls Both and yet Neither (aka BayN).