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   3 Non-space, non-time of Butoh

Sinking into the darkness of body

Now we go down into the dimension of butoh.

Hijikata found the way into the special butoh dimension, and 50 years before only Hijikata could enter the dimension.

But now we all can enter the world where the butoh spirits are waiting for you with the map of subbody butoh method.

The world which the world of butoh is not the consensus reality.

The consensus reality is a kind of common illusion. But now most of people who are trained in the school believe it, then nobody doubt it. We were not taught either another reality may exist nor we do not learn how to doubt this consensus reality.

It is like all of us are under hypnosis.

When we wake up from the hypnosis of consensus reality, another reality will open in front of us.

Butoh exist in this another world which has non- space, non- time.

In that world, the live and the dead, human and animal can exchange each other. All qualia are flouting freely with shifting shapes and qualities in the multi-dimensional world.

Where is the world like that?

Yes, you enter the world every night in the dream.

The dream is a sub-signal from the multi-dimensional world of qualia.

Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung named it as unconsciousness. But after them so many people defined and interpreted in so many different ways, then now the word is almost dead. A.Mindell use the word of the second process. S.Nakazawa use the word of fluid intelligence. I call it the darkness of body like as  Hijikata.

In the darkness of body, so many hobgoblins and monsters are  locked in the tiny cage of dimensions and crying.

Every body who was grown up as a human has these hobgoblins rooms in the darkness of body.

They were treated as a monster and locked. However, is it true?

They were just a new bud of possibility for human, werenft they?

They are treated as a monsters by the reason because they do not work well in the productive system.

A lot of buds of new possibilities are locked and crush in the darkness of body.

I named it subbody.

Now the time to release our subbody.@Don't you feel the sign of squirming of subbody to go out?

How can we go into the subbodyfs waorld?

The world is folded in the very tiny and subtle dimension.

Into the subtle world

At first we need to stop the daily consciousness.

The consciousness need so much brain energy, then we can not notice the subtle world by masking of the higher energy of consciousness.

When you level down the consciousness by breathing, meditation, and so on, you can contact with the subtle world of qualia flow.

The subbody is hiding in the tiny signals of the qualia flow like a momentary quivering, swaying, flirting.

If you amplify the tiny signal of subbody by your whole body and mind, the tiny signal will grow up to your subbody Butoh.

gWhy couldnft you come out?h Try to ask to the subbody.

However subbody can not speak, because most of subbody were born and immediately locked before he/she learned language.

If you want to communicate with subbody, the only one possibility is to follow the movement of subbody by your whole bodymind.

By following the subbody, you can understand what he/she wants to become, where to move.

The place is swaying between life and death, between being and nothing.

Every tragic events and extraordinary things are folded in the tiny sway of qualia.

Butoh unfolds that kind of special dimensions.

Ash walk

Stand as a ash pole body which your physical body and mind have burn out. You are just a swaying ash pole.

Hijikata said often that butoh is a dead body which stands for dear life.

Ash walking is one of the most basic butoh practice. Repeat it several times every day.

Ash pole is very delicate, if you move in a daily size movement, immediately ash pole will collapse down. You have to carry the ash pole as quiet as possible, as slow as possible.

In the tiny space among ash particles many other tiny dimensions are folded,.

That is the sub signal from subbody. Catch the subtle sub signal of subbody. 

Nests of butoh

We do not know what kind of monster or hobgoblin are going to come out. Just you can concentrate to listen to the subtle signals.

You will notice that there are full of sub signals in the awaying of your ash body.        

They try to move for coming out desperately, but it does not work. All of the bud or seed of other dimensions are try to open and come out, but all of their trials have failed to open and lost.

Unkown creatures of other dimension, spirits, demons, night mehrs, and so on, are want to come out from tiny buds between particles of ash.

To carry the ash body which is full of buds or eggs of other dimensions is the walk of enests of butohf

Hijikata showed this walk as his last butoh performance in 1973.

It had almost no movement, no evolution, just some part of his body seemed to shift into another dimension and come back with subtle swaying.

He invented a special technique to control the body in very delicate and fragile way. It was his last and deepest butoh performance.

Never develop to daily size movement. Let the subtle signals allow to lose like stillborn babies.

Practice this ash walk and the nests of butoh walk several times in each day. This is the very entrance into butoh world.