Jumping wild Rhizome

Furthermore, in order to promote free resonance emergence of qualia, it's good to lead the jumping wild Rhizome.
Originally, Rhizome is free to link and separate whenever and wherever it is,
If it proceeds to cross beyond spacetime, beyond self and other, beyond all boundaries, the Qualia make the most unexpected encounters.
More and more resonance emergencies occur and new Qualia will be born one after another.
The most creative state which is called superconducting state is born.

How to realize this as the movement of subbody = cobody.

It depends on the idea of a midwife.
Every day, listen to the change of the darkness of the body of the participant,
and explore what alienates the free jump.
Ego, thinking habit, self-identity, repeated self-stories, criticisms, denial to others, and so on.
Those tendencies are the remaining of the daily body, that subbody = cobody still wear.

The midwife has to lead to take off them somehow. However, when the ego is attacked directly, it shows intense resistance. This is an instinctive resistance.
It is better not to work directly to take off that debris but to suggest more interesting things.
The ego also starts to challenge by breaking the shell if it seems somehow looks interesting, although it is somewhat different from the ego's usual way.
That is <Jumping wild Rhizome>.
The each part of the body is deterritorialized and becomes nomads. Nomad Rhizome body is able to connect to any part of the body of another person and separate it flexible. Sometimes, several different Qualia come together in one body and become a Chimera body.
It transforms indefinitely, resonates with the invisible world, and the emergence of new Qualia happens.
Whether participants will create an environment or atmosphere that will make them enjoyable from the bottom is decided.
It's better to start like play.

"We were born to play.
We were born to be playful.
If the voice of the child playing, also my body move with resonance. "
(Ryoujinhisho -old Japanese song)

<Rhizoming conditioning and researching>

1. Qualia Travel
Let various Qualia pass through your body in various directions; from the bottom to the top, from the top to the bottom; vibrations, sways, waves, shocks, collapses, death Qualia pass through.

2. Qualia catch ball
When various Qualia pass through every direction, et Qualia travel from a person to others and passes through the body of others. In the process, the Qualia transform freely and jumps to the body of another person. Enjoy it.

3. Deterritorialization
Sometimes a part of the body release from the territory of ego, and becomes nomad that travel beyond the border among people. My arm connects with your back, your head starts living at my hip, etc. Infinite deterritorialization and reterritorialization occur when the body connects to a part of the body of another person somewhere in the body of another person.

4. Jumping wild
Pass all Qualia on its own so that it goes through the body. Sometimes it separates from other people's body.

5. The behind world
Sometimes, unexpected accidents occur by resonating with the invisible behind world of each own.

5. Jumping wild Resonant Rhizome
It is fun playing by integrating all of the above.

Let's get out of the Tree and become the Rhizome!

For many years, the Rhizome could not be successfully positioned in the subbody method.

Finally, after many years of midwifing, the question of how to open the creative potential of people by diving into the darkness of the body has become transparent.

The creativity of Life is based on the natural phenomena that when two Qualia interact there is a spontaneous resonant emergence of a new Qualia.

We named it "Resonance emergence". This discovery let me notice the irreplaceable importance of Rhizome.

The Rhizome that is able to connect freely and separate flexibly is the best environment in which to open the infinite creativity of Life.

So, with confidence, we can say now, "You can leave the Tree and become Rhizome!"

I was subconsciously aware of this a long time ago. Yet, it took only twenty years before the relationship between creativity and the Rhizome could be theorised.

Why is the Rhizome full of creativity?

Although it was a mystery for many years, the reason has appeared transparently at last.

The Rhizome is full of creativity because of the frequent occurrence of extraordinary encounters between Qualia and Qualia in a freely separable, and any time connectable environment. Also, Qualia's resonance emergence creates more and more new Qualia if you just disregard the tree-like order. This is the simple answer.

I was subconsciously aware of it long ago. All activities of mine were directed to cultivate the Rhizome in the world in any manner possible. It took only twenty years before it could be  theorized.

Rhizome is the foundation of Life's creativity where Qualia and Qualia are able to interact freely beyond boundaries.

In daily life, we are bound by the Tree-like hierarchical order and Qualia cannot interact freely because many boundaries inhibit it. Nation-state, religion, company, family, ego, self-identity and so on disturb free interaction. That is why daily bodies are alienated from the creativity of Life.

Ensure that everyone in the world can escape from any tree system.

The Rhizome will creep into every layer of the tree system, eat it and break it. When tree-like connections are split unexpectedly by the invading Rhizome, beyond every boundary and hierarchy, it will cause the Tree to crush from inside.

Life Resonance Qualia will be unleashed in non-dual,  multidimensional channels.

It will start from the site of creation, and eventually, rhizome formation will progress to every aspect of social relations.

Let's create a world in which everyone can become a creator. A world where everyone's everyday life will be limitlessly creative.

How interesting will such a world be?
The purpose of Life Resonance Art is to remove all obstacles and facilitate the blossoming of mankind’s creativity.

Defeat Tree-like hierarchical order around the world, let's transform it into Rhizome.

Of course, those profiting from the current tree based hierarchical order will resist intensely. They already have political and economic power and control the information management system.

Tyrannical world powers have merged and multiplied at an unprecedented scalein human history. But there is nothing to worry about. No system can prohibit Life Resonance. Life resonates with Life, and one day, suddenly the wave of Life Resonance of the world will destroy the towering world powers.

As slavery will perish and the feudal system is lost, current politics, economics and information power will disappear as well.

Just imagine it now. Eventually the day will come that this will become a reality.

"Oh, the country of the future, that's all"

Formerly, the revolutionary Japanese poet, Gan Tanigawa muttered so. Now I, a Himalayan daydreamer, am imagining about the future without a nation and murmuring.

"Oh, the future Rhizome. That's all it is"

In the Relay of Life, Gan Tanigawa’s spirit of change for a country has become the transformation into a Rhizome.

Gradually, the process of how the nation should transform into a Rhizome is becoming clearer. We may have to wait for several generations to realize this dream.

The next generation of runners have already spread all over the world from the Himalayas. They will pass on the baton to others.

While dreaming about it, I can laugh and return to the four billion years old tide of Life.

The Butoh-fu was updated through the bodily reading of it as the following;

1. Listen to inside 50%, to outside 50%, become a Transparent body that is not bound by anything.
2. Focus on listening to the weakest and most fragile Qualia shivering with unknown fear of cell’s Life.
3. You are an old man or old woman who knew the uselessness of the body.
Spread your hidden skins toward the world with attentiveness and shrink when you meet something strange.
4. With each step your body enters the different time-space; from present time to five years infant world, your fetus realm, ancestral age.
5 And upstream to the age of origin Life of four billion years ago.
6. From the feet and legs, Prototype Qualia invade your body with shining.
7. Tentacles grow up from your forehead to quest the celestial Archetypes; fairy, angel, spirit and so on.
8. Unknown cold Qualia approach from the “Behind world” and your back are frozen.
9. Hidden desires of your innerorgans start waving. Your wishes are dancing ahead, you want to be oneness with it eagerly but your body is not able to catch up it.
10. The nerves are stolen from your arms and legs.
11. Swallow all emotions and feelings into your stomach and wait for the ferment as the novel Kan (disabled) flower.
12. Glare at the world with your “Rock cicada's eyes”.
13. Walk with inventing diverse Kan flowers and strange resonance with the world.
-->15 munites Free Resonance

The first experiment of "Hidden Skin Walk" was welcomed by the participants of the Winter Intensive.
One of the impressions was that it was better to take more time to read the Butoh-fu when the Qualia of each line seeped into the body slowly.
The tempo is important. If it is too early, the Qualia will be flying away above the body.
An idea was born.
How about fixing the time with the music?
Any kind of response of the dancers with this butoh-fu is OK. Including all the possibilities, it is the performance of this butoh-fu.
Although it is still the Butoh of only subbody now, if it develops to the Butoh of subbody = cobody, it seems that we write a "Butoh" as if Zeami wrote many "Noh" as Yokyoku.
In particular, at the Subbody school, we have not only solo but also co-creation of subbody = cobody butoh by complex resonance with many people. There is also a butoh form developed by the Life Resonance called "Resonant Rhizome".
It is possible to take out the resonance pattern there and fix it together with music.
If we can write <Resonance Butoh-fu> along with music in a new format, it may be possible to leave these Butoh in the future.
A novel possibility is going to open. It is also depending on that music editing can be done easily recently.
In Hijikata's era, it was impossible because we had to edit sound in analog machines.
We encounter a new possibility! I was a little excited.
We will find the method to write <Resonance Butoh-fu> with music.
If it will succeed, the butoh could be performed even a thousand years after.
Finally, the next horizon of creation has come to light.

A new butoh-fu was born. It is made by just condensed in short sentences what I was talking about in the class of Subbody school into several lines.
Devised so that we can meet with forgotten Qualia as many as possible revived, and create novel Qualia by encounter the different Qualia.
Have participants in the current winter intensive course walk with passing this Butoh-fu through the body.
And we examine what subbody = cobody will come out and which one is difficult to come out.
We will complete it by refining.


1. Listen to inside 50%, to outside 50%, become a Transparent body that is not bound by anything.
2. Focus on listening to the weakest and most fragile Qualia shivering with unknown fear of cell’s Life.
3. You are an old man or old woman who knew the uselessness of the body.
4. Spread your hidden skins toward the world with attentiveness and shrink when you meet something strange.
5. With each step your body enters the different time-space; from present time to five years infant world, your fetus realm, ancestral age, before the human's time-space to origin Life of four billion years ago.
6. From the feet and legs, Prototype Qualia invade your body with shining.
7. Tentacles grow up from your forehead to quest the celestial Archetypes; fairy, angel, spirit and so on.
8. Unknown cold Qualia approach from the “Behind world” and your back are frozen.
9. Hidden desires of your innerorgans start waving.
10. The nerves are stolen from your arms and legs.
11. Swallow all emotions and feelings into your stomach and wait for the ferment as the novel Kan (disabled) flower.
12. Glare at the world with your “Rock cicada's eyes”.
13. Walk with inventing diverse Kan flowers and strange resonance with the world.

I have no choice but to dance this dance again and again.
Since the world tour of ”Dance Rhizome” in 1999-2002, I danced for the first time in 20 years.
Twenty years ago, I had no idea why I danced this dance.
I know exactly now.
However, there are many things that you can not do anything even if you understand it with your head.
Mirage
I know that I can not capture it even if I want it.
Mirage
Because it is a projection of inner illusion.
But I can't stop asking for it.
Where are you disappearing about?
Mirage
The hand cuts the air and the feet wander in the empty space.
I can't see you.
Mirage
I just want something that I can not get even how strong asked for at any rate.
Mirage
It is seriously conscious of that I am absurd.
But as long as we do not dance the mysterious secret of Life that our human is unable to control, there is no real contact to Life.
Mirage
I wonder if I could approach the solution while dancing.
I don't understand.
Mirage
Since I do not know, I have no choice but to dance.

Become　multiple resonance body with pass through the
Rokudo (Six realms) Qualia

Let’s train the Transparent eyes in the Winter Intensive

1. Listen to the non-dual Qualia in the darkness of body

Every day, we start the Ash walk, it is the walking medimotion.

When we stop thinking and listen to the darkness of the body,

at first, we meet obscure chaotic Qualia that is not able to distinguish which they are. Sensation? Memory? Feeling? Imagination? Dream? Illusion?

Signs? Flurt? Finch? Prediction? Suggestion?

We cannot recognize it separately, Qualia are mixed and changing at each moment like a Rhizome.

We call it, “Non-dual Qualia”.

Life is resonating with this non-dual and multi-dimensional Qualia, always.

2. Hunt the moment the non-dual Qualia become a subtle movement

In the Ash walk, we try to carry the body as quiet as possible. But, we cannot inhibit the subtle vibration or sway.

We listen to the subtle vibrations or sways, we may meet so diverse tendencies, some part may want to float up, another part may sink down or shrink.

Listen to the diverse tendencies, and hunt the moment that a part of your body follows the tendency by the body movement.

Watch the spontaneous movement by the distant eyes. It is your subbody.

Normally, we follow the spontaneous movement and develop it as today’s subbody.

But, in the Winter Intensive, we will co-research in this subbody process much more precisely.

3. See the whole process transparently

We move and see it transparently what is happening.

We watch the subbody process precisely and exchange it by word and movement.

We use the Qualia language that is connected to each label language of Qualia by "and".

What Qualia do you feel at first?

And what is the next?

And the next?

This is the work to elucidate out the subtle subbody process precisely.

We will co-research each subtle phenomena that happen in the subbody process.

The subtle tendencies might be felt with various nuances as the followings;

Forgotten memory, Finch, Flirt, Invitation, Temptation, Implication, Insinuation, Suggestion and so on. It doesn’t matter. We just follow the tendency and it becomes a bodily movement.

It might come from your forgotten memories of cells because cells have four billion years Life memories. Or they may connect with the Archetypes and appear as the following:

Flirt from another world

Implication by someone

Insinuation by a spirit

Invitation from a dreamland

Suggestion by the ancestor

Temptation by a trickster

and so on.

 When you will meet these Archetype Qualia, not being possessed like ancient people, see it transparently what resonance is happening between the archetype Qualia that we share in the collective unconsciusness and present physical Qualia. To be transparent means not bound by anything.

4. Investigate in them half as the mental process and half as the physical process

To become transparent that is not bound by anything, we need to keep exact 50% and 50% balance among all.

We research it half as the mental process. It means to grab the phenomena as the resonance of imaginary Qualia; memory, imagination, dream, sensation, feeling, emotion, illusion and so on.

And the other half we try to grab the process as the physical process.

We research what will happen when an imaginary Qualia meet some cells of the body?

Subtle physical particles are provided from a cell and the neighbor cells receive it by the receptors.

They are called the nerve transmitter; including the hormones. Recently so many variations of them are found.

Each nerve transmitter has own special role and controls the body with complicated network resonance.

We need to keep this transparent attitude to investigate our body=mind process without any bias.

5. Be aware not to be trapped

Be aware that all viewpoints in the world are trapped by own bias. All Religions are limited by own beliefs, science is bound by own narrow viewpoint.

We have to build the Transparent eyes that are not bound by any tendencies by ourselves, even it is extremely hard.

If we lose this Transparency, immediately we are trapped by a biased viewpoint.

Do not believe the internet information directly. Do not use the same terminology as them. We need to avoid the biased words in each narrow tendencies, including the biggest modern humanistic biases.

This winter will be the deep Transparent dive into the darkness of body.

Hope to share this presious experiment with you under the Winter Sun.

Lee

Dance the critical point between visible and invisible!

Butoh of Life that is conveyed from Life to Life will be born from dancing the critical area between visible and invisible.

Dancing not only visible movement but also Qualia blinking between visible and invisible slightly and momentarily.

We need to find a new technique to dance it.

Inner Qualia that are changing and flowing in the invisible range may spill out on the movement of the body and the change in facial expression, and it quickly sinks into the invisible area.

If you can capture this ups and downs exquisitely and convert it to dancing, Life will be assimilated into the reality of its Life Resonance by itself, causing miracles in which the dancer and audience will be united.

In this Winter Intensive course, we investigate the techniques to induce such miracles of Life Resonance.

The key is to focus on the in-between visible and invisible.

We dance the moment when Qualia become a subtle physical movement and disappear momentarily.

The boundary between inner Qualia and outer Qualia disappear in the dancing.

Hijikata's Butoh-fu is to guide this crossing of inner and outer Qualia stream to support the whole process between invisible and visible.

Challenge of November：

Polish up the Butoh

Two months of September, October have passed like a storm.

We shifted from the Tree-like hierarchical order of old subbody method to Rhizome.

We could realize a novel creative field through the new methods of Resonant yoga, Resonant bodywork, Resonant research, Dreaming share, Cobody share and so on.

We are going to complete the novel creative method if the Resonant Rhizome that we co-create our butoh in subbody=cobody state before the differentiation of self and others.

However, there are still a lot of challenges left before the creation is completed.

What issues are we facing in November?

Quest for the inevitable dance for each

Listening to your Life, not only to your self, "Why do I need to dance?"

Solve your issues by converting it into dancing. However, we take a safe distance against the problem that we are not ready for now.

"What do you want to realize?" Listen to the wishes of your Life,
and continue to carry the secret.

Deepen the resonance technique with audiences

Continue to watch the Life resonance with the audience at all times by the distant eyes.

Become a body full of unexpected surprise

Be aware of how your movements are received by the audience from start to finish.

Betray the expectations of the audience at all times.

The surprising part moves in an unexpected direction, with an unexpected rhythm.

It will be in a shape that the audience has never seen.

Develop with unexpected Jo-Ha-Kyu.

In Life resonance, unexpectedness becomes an element of beauty

Life knows best what is the flower for Life.

Remember the moment when Life was moved by the unexpected happening.

Carrying Density

Becomes the different density of body other than the human body. And transform infinitely into all beings of the universe.

Being moved

Always you are moved by someone. Reduce your will of the human.

Jumping wild

Leap to another dimension that cannot be predicted always.

Perfect the Jo-ha-Kyu

Dancing in which the Jo-Ha-Kyu is not accomplished impairs the resonance of Life.

Dance which is transmitted from Life to Life is realized through the fulfilling of the Jo-Ha-Kyu.

Diversity

 Each butoh should be totally unique and different.
We will expand the possibility and diversity of Life.

Rhizome Revolution of subbody method 2

One tree in my head


"A lot of people are growing a tree in their heads" ("Rhizome" Deuluze = Guattari)

A long story called "Ego" or "Identity grows from this tree. The inner language which supports the self-identity is repeated infinite times.
The tree grows up to an adult, parent, teacher or a General.

No matter how conscientious it is, the Tree will kill the Rhizome of Life.
I was careless. I did not notice it. I overlooked what the tree was killing the explosion of subbody = cobody for 20 years.
The common illusion of the education theory of step-by-step method that I was bound has limited the free explosion of them.
I wonder how far I was missing the respect to the Life.
In the past 20 years, I listened to the darkness of the body of the students and participants as a midwife.
Listen to the breath of subbody = cobody lurking there, I have devoted myself to their birth.
However, in the process, I regard the unborn subbody = cobody as if it were a baby.
I was noticed that I was getting into a misunderstanding.
Certainly, many subbodies= cobodies have hidden in the darkness of the body by the parents' selective carelessness in childhood.
They might not have acquired good resonance patterns with this world.
However, at the same time, subbody=cobody is also a crystal of wisdom of Life that has been living for 4 billion years.
I had overlooked it and forgot the awe of wisdom of Life.

It reminded me that on the second day after this autumn class started,
when we did the <COBODY DREAMING SHARE>.
There are thirteen fresh cobodies appearing one after another in one day.
They sprang out as if they had been waiting to come out for a long time.
And everyone was lively dancing among other people 's cobody world.

When the tree in my head was turned off and the teacher in me ceased to lead, I was surprised at how much interesting sight would spread.
When I withered the Tree in me, it seems that the Rhizome which was suppressed by it gets spread freely.



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Rhizome

Introduction of A Thousand Plateaus
by Deleuze & Guattari

(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987)

tr. Brian Massumi

The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. Here we have made use of everything came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We assigned clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition. Why have we kept own names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourselves, but what makes us act, feel, and think. Also because it's nice to talk like everybody else, to say the sun rises, when everybody knows it's only a manner of speaking. To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves. Each will know his own. We have been aided, inspired, multiplied. A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously for matters, and very different dates and speeds. To attribute the book subject is to overlook this working of matters, and the exteriority of their relations. It is to fabricate a beneficent God to explain geological movements. In a book, as in all things, there are lines of articulation segmentarity, strata and territories; but also lines of flight, movement deterritorialization and destratification. Comparative rates of flow on

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these lines produce phenomena of relative slowness and viscosity, or, on contrary, of acceleration and rupture. All this, lines and measurable speeds, constitutes an assemblage. A book is an assemblage of this kind, and as such is unattributable. It is a multiplicity-but we don't know yet at the multiple entails when it is no longer attributed, that is, after it has been elevated to the status of a substantive. One side of a machinic assemblage faces the strata, which doubtless make it a kind of organism, or signing totality, or determination attributable to a subject; it also has a side facing a body without organs, which is continually dismantling the organism, causing asignifying particles or pure intensities to pass or circulate, and attributing to itself subjects that it leaves with nothing more than a name as the trace of an intensity. What is the body without organs of a book? There are several, depending on the nature of the lines considered, their particular grade or density, and the possibility of their converging on "plane of consistency" assuring their selection. Here, as elsewhere, the units of measure are what is essential: quantify writing. There is no difference between what a book talks about and how it is made. Therefore a book has no object. As an assemblage, a book has only itself, in connection with other assemblages and in relation to other bodies without organs. We will never ask what a book means, as signified or signifier; we will not look for anything to understand in it. We will ask what it functions with, in connection with what other things it does or does not transmit intensities, in which other multiplicities its own are inserted and metamorphosed, and with what bodies without organs it makes its own converge. A book exists only through the outside and on the outside. A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love machine, revolutionary machine, etc.-and an abstract machine that sweeps them along? We have been criticized for overquoting literary authors. But when one writes, the only question is which other machine the literary machine can be plugged into, must be plugged into in order to work. Kleist and a mad war machine, Kafka and a most extraordinary bureaucratic machine ... (What if one became animal or plant through literature, which certainly does not mean literarily? Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?) Literature is an assemblage. It has nothing to do with ideology. There is no ideology and never has been. All we talk about are multiplicities, lines, strata and segmentarities, ines of flight and intensities, machinic assemblages and their various ypes, bodies without organs and their construction and selection, the )lane of consistency, and in each case the units of measure. Stratometers, teleometers, BwO units of density, BwO units of convergence: Not only do hese constitute a quantification of writing, but they define writing as ilways the measure of something else. Writing has nothing to do with

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signifying. It has to do with surveying, mapping, even realms that are yet to come.

A first type of book is the root-book. The tree is already the image of the world, or the root the image of the world-tree. This is the classical book, as noble, signifying, and subjective organic interiority (the strata of the book). The book imitates the world, as art imitates nature: by procedures specific to it that accomplish what nature cannot or can no longer do. The law of the book is the law of reflection, the One that becomes two. How could the law of the book reside in nature, when it is what presides over the very division between world and book, nature and art? One becomes two: whenever we encounter this formula, even stated strategically by Mao or understood in the most "dialectical" way possible, what we have before us is the most classical and well reflected, oldest, and weariest kind of thought. Nature doesn't work that way: in nature, roots are taproots with a more multiple, lateral, and circular system of ramification, rather than a dichotomous one. Thought lags behind nature. Even the book as a natural reality is a taproot, with its pivotal spine and surrounding leaves. But the book as a spiritual reality, theTree or Root as an image, endlessly develops the law of the One that becomes two, then of the two that become four ... Binary logic is the spiritual reality of the root-tree. Even a discipline as "advanced" as linguistics retains the root-tree as its fundamental image, and thus remains wedded to classical reflection (for example, Chomsky and his grammatical trees, which begin at a point S and proceed by dichotomy). This is as much as to say that this system of thought has never reached an understanding of multiplicity: in order to arrive at two following a spiritual method it must assume a strong principal unity. On the side of the object, it is no doubt possible, following the natural method, to go directly from One to three, four, or five, but only if there is a strong principal unity available, that of the pivotal taproot supporting the secondary roots. That doesn't get us very far. The binary logic of dichotomy has simply been replaced by biunivocal relationships between successive circles. The pivotal taproot provides no better understanding of multiplicity than the dichotomous root. One operates in the object, the other in the subject. Binary logic and biunivocal relationships still dominate psychoanalysis (the tree of delusion in the Freudian interpretation of Schreber's case), linguistics, structuralism, and even information science.

The radicle-system, or fascicular root, is the second figure of the book, to which our modernity pays willing allegiance. This time, the principal root has aborted, or its tip has been destroyed; an immediate, indefinite multiplicity of secondary roots grafts onto it and undergoes a flourishing development. This time, natural reality is what aborts the principal root, but the root's unity subsists, as past or yet to come, as possible. We must ask

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reflexive, spiritual reality does not compensate for this state of things by demanding an even more comprehensive secret unity, or a more extensive totality. Take William Burroughs's cut-up method: the folding of one text onto another, which constitutes multiple and even adventitious roots (like a cutting), implies a supplementary dimension to that of the texts under consideration. In this supplementary dimension of folding, unity continues its spiritual labor. That is why the most resolutely fragmented work can not be presented as the Total Work or Magnum Opus. Most modern methods for making series proliferate or a multiplicity grow are perfectly valid one direction, for example, a linear direction, whereas a unity of totalization asserts itself even more firmly in another, circular or cyclic, dimension. Whenever a multiplicity is taken up in a structure, its growth is offset by a reduction in its laws of combination. The abortionists of unity are indeed angel makers, doctores angelici, because they affirm a properly angelic and superior unity. Joyce's words, accurately described as having "multiple roots," shatter the linear unity of the word, even of language, only to posit a cyclic unity of the sentence, text, or knowledge. Nietzsche's aphorisms shatter the linear unity of knowledge, only to invoke the cyclic unity of the eternal return, present as the nonknown in thought. This is as much as to say that the fascicular system does not really break with dualism, with the complementarity between a subject and an object, a natural reality and a spiritual reality: unity is consistently thwarted and obstructed in the object, while a new type of unity triumphs in the subject. The world has lost its pivot; the subject can no longer even dichotomize, but accedes to a higher unity, of ambivalence or overdetermination, in an always supplementary dimension to that of its object. The world has become chaos, but the book remains the image of the world: radicle-chaosmos rather than root-cosmos. A strange mystification: a book all the more total for being fragmented. At any rate, what a vapid idea, the book as the image of the world. In truth, it is not enough to say, "Long live the multiple," difficult as is to raise that cry. No typographical, lexical, or even syntactical cleverness is enough to make it heard. The multiple must be made, not by always adding a higher dimension, but rather in the simplest of ways, by dint of sobriety, with the number of dimensions one already has available—always n-1 (the only way the one belongs to the multiple: always subtracted). Subtract the unique from the multiplicity to be constituted; write at n - I dimensions. A system of this kind could be called a rhizome. A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles. Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes. Plants with roots or radicles may be rhizomorphic in other respects altogether: the question is whether plant life in its specificity is not entirely rhizomatic. Even some animals are, in their pack form. Rats are rhizomes. Burrows are too, in all of their func

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tions of shelter, supply, movement, evasion, and breakout. The rhizome itself assumes very diverse forms, from ramified surface extension in all directions to concretion into bulbs and tubers. When rats swarm over each other. The rhizome includes the best and the worst: potato and couchgrass, or the weed. Animal and plant, couchgrass is crabgrass. We get the distinct feeling that we will convince no one unless we enumerate certain approximate characteristics of the rhizome.

1 and 2. Principles of connection and heterogeneity: any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be. This is very different from the tree or root, which plots a point, fixes an order. The linguistic tree on the Chomsky model still begins at a point S and proceeds by dichotomy. On the contrary, not every trait in a rhizome is necessarily linked to a linguistic feature: semiotic chains of every nature are connected to very diverse modes of coding (biological, political, economic, etc.) that bring into play not only different regimes of signs but also states of things of differing status. Collective assemblages of enunciation function directly within machinic assemblages; it is not impossible to make a radical break between regimes of signs and their objects. Even when linguistics claims to confine itself to what is explicit and to make no presuppositions about language, it is still in the sphere of a discourse implying particular modes of assemblage and types of social power. Chomsky's grammaticality, the categorical S symbol that dominates every sentence, is more fundamentally a marker of power than a syntactic marker: you will construct grammatically correct sentences, you will divide each statement into a noun phrase and a verb phrase (first dichotomy ... ). Our criticism of these linguistic models is not that they are too abstract but, on the contrary, that they are not abstract enough, that they do not reach the abstract machine that connects a language to the semantic and pragmatic contents of statements, to collective assemblages of enunciation, to a whole micropolitics of the social field. A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles. A semiotic chain is like a tuber agglomerating very diverse acts, not only linguistic, but also perceptive, mimetic, gestural, and cognitive: there is no language in itself, nor are there any linguistic universals, only a throng of dialects, patois, slangs, and specialized languages. There is no ideal speaker-listener, any more than there is a homogeneous linguistic community. Language is, in Weinreich's words, "an essentially heterogeneous reality."1 There is no mother tongue, only a power takeover by a dominant language within a political multiplicity. Language stabilizes around a parish, a bishopric, a capital. It forms a bulb. It evolves by subterranean stems and flows, along river valleys or train tracks; it spreads like a patch of oil.2 It is always possible to break a language

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down into internal structural elements, an undertaking not fundamentally different from a search for roots. There is always something genealogical about a tree. It is not a method for the people. A method of the rhizome type, on the contrary, can analyze language only by decentering it onto other dimensions and other registers. A language is never closed upon itself, except as a function of impotence.

3. Principle of multiplicity: it is only when the multiple is effectively treated as a substantive, "multiplicity," that it ceases to have any relation to the One as subject or object, natural or spiritual reality, image and world. Multiplicities are rhizomatic, and expose arborescent pseudomultiplicities for what they are. There is no unity to serve as a pivot in the object, or to divide in the subject. There is not even the unity to abort in the object "return" in the subject. A multiplicity has neither subject nor object, on1y determinations, magnitudes, and dimensions that cannot increase in number without the multiplicity changing in nature (the laws of combination therefore increase in number as the multiplicity grows). Puppet strings, as a rhizome or multiplicity, are tied not to the supposed will of an artist or puppeteer but to a multiplicity of nerve fibers, which form another puppet in other dimensions connected to the first: "Call the strings or rods that move the puppet the weave. It might be objected that its multiplicity resides in the person of the actor, who projects it into the text. Granted; but the actor's nerve fibers in turn form a weave. And they fall rough the gray matter, the grid, into the undifferentiated.... The interplay approximates the pure activity of weavers attributed in myth to the Fates or Norns."3 An assemblage is precisely this increase in the dimensions of a multiplicity that necessarily changes in nature as it expands its connections. There are no points or positions in a rhizome, such as those found in a structure, tree, or root. There are only lines. When Glenn Gould speeds up the performance of a piece, he is not just displaying virtuosity, he is transforming the musical points into lines, he is making the whole piece proliferate. The number is no longer a universal concept measuring elements according to their emplacement in a given dimension, but has itself become a multiplicity that varies according to the dimensions considered (the primacy of the domain over a complex of numbers attached to that domain). We do not have units (unités) of measure, only multiplicities or varieties of measurement. The notion of unity (unités) appears only when there is a power takeover in the multiplicity by the signifier or a correponding subjectification proceeding: This is the case for a pivot-unity forming the basis for a set of biunivocal relationships between objective elements or points, or for the One that divides following the law of a binary logic of differentiation in the subject. Unity always operates in an empty dimension supplementary to that of the system considered (overcoding).

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The point is that a rhizome or multiplicity never allows itself to be overcoded, never has available a supplementary dimension over and above its number of lines, that is, over and above the multiplicity of numbers attached to those lines. All multiplicities are flat, in the sense that they fill or occupy all of their dimensions: we will therefore speak of a plane of consistency of multiplicities, even though the dimensions of this "plane" increase with the number of connections that are made on it. Multiplicities are defined by the outside: by the abstract line, the line of flight or deterritorialization according to which they change in nature and connect with other multiplicities. The plane of consistency (grid) is the outside of all multiplicities. The line of flight marks: the reality of a finite number of dimensions that the multiplicity effectively fills; the impossibility of a supplementary dimension, unless the multiplicity is transformed by the line of flight; the possibility and necessity of flattening all of the multiplicities on a single plane of consistency or exteriority, regardless of their number of dimensions. The ideal for a book would be to lay everything out on a plane of exteriority of this kind, on a single page, the same sheet: lived events, historical determinations, concepts, individuals, groups, social formations. Kleist invented a writing of this type, a broken chain of affects and variable speeds, with accelerations and transformations, always in a relation with the outside. Open rings. His texts, therefore, are opposed in every way to the classical or romantic book constituted by the interiority of a substance or subject. The war machine-book against the State apparatus-book. Flat multiplicities of n dimensions are asignifying and asubjective. They are designated by indefinite articles, or rather by partitives (some couchgrass, some of a rhizome ...).

4. Principle of asignifying rupture: against the oversignifying breaks separating structures or cutting across a single structure. A rhizome may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines. You can never get rid of ants because they form an animal rhizome that can rebound time and again after most of it has been destroyed. Every rhizome contains lines of segmentarity according to which it is stratified, territorialized, organized, signified, attributed, etc., as well as lines of deterritorialization down which it constantly flees. There is a rupture in the rhizome whenever segmentary lines explode into a line of flight, but the line of flight is part of the rhizome. These lines always tie back to one another. That is why one can never posit a dualism or a dichotomy, even in the rudimentary form of the good and the bad. You may make a rupture, draw a line of flight, yet there is still a danger that you will reencounter organizations that restratify everything, formations that restore power to a signifier, attributions that reconstitute a subject—anything you like, from Oedipal resurgences to fascist concretions. Groups

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and individuals contain microfascisms just waiting to crystallize. Yes, couchgrass is also a rhizome. Good and bad are only the products of an active and temporary selection, which must be renewed. How could movements of deterritorialization and processes of reterritalization not be relative, always connected, caught up in one another? The orchid deterritorializes by forming an image, a tracing of a wasp; but the wasp reterritorializes on that image. The wasp is nevertheless derritorialized, becoming a piece in the orchid's reproductive apparatus. But it reterritorializes the orchid by transporting its pollen. Wasp and orchid, as heterogeneous elements, form a rhizome. It could be said that the orchid imitates the wasp, reproducing its image in a signifying fashion (mimesis, mimicry, lure, etc.). But this is true only on the level of the strata-a parallelism between two strata such that a plant organization on one imitates an animal organization on the other. At the same time, something else entirely is going on: not imitation at all but a capture of code, surplus value of code, an increase in valence, a veritable becoming, a becoming-wasp of the orchid and a becoming-orchid of the wasp. Each of these becomings brings about the deterritorialization of one term and the reterritorialization of the other; the two becomings interlink and form relays in a circulation of intensities pushing the deterritorialization ever further. There is neither imitation nor resemblance, only an exploding of two heterogeneous series on the line of flight composed by a common rhizome that can no longer be attributed to or subjugated by anything signifying. Rémy Chauvin expresses it well: "the aparallel evolution of two beings that have absolutely nothing to do with each other."4 More generally, evolutionary schemas may be forced to abandon the old model of the tree and descent. Under certain conditions, a virus can connect to germ cells and transmit itself as the cellular gene of a complex species; moreover, it can take flight, move into the cells of an entirely different species, but not without bringing with it "genetic information" from the first host (for example, Benveniste and Todaro's current research on a type C virus, with its double connection to baboon DNA and the DNA of certain kinds of domestic cats). Evolutionary schemas would no longer follow models of arborescent descent going from the least to the most differentiated, but instead a rhizome operating immediately in the heterogeneous and jumping from one already differentiated line to another.5 Once again, there is aparallel evolution, of the baboon and the cat; it is obvious that they are not models or copies of each other (a becoming-baboon in the cat does not mean that the cat "plays" baboon). We form a rhizome with our viruses, or rather our viruses cause us to form a rhizome with other animals. As Francois Jacob says, transfers of genetic material by viruses or through other procedures, fusions of cells originating in different species, have results analogous to

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those of "the abominable couplings dear to antiquity and the Middle Ages."6 Transversal communications between different lines scramble the genealogical trees. Always look for the molecular, or even submolecular, particle with which we are allied. We evolve and die more from our polymorphous and rhizomatic flus than from hereditary diseases, or diseases that have their own line of descent. The rhizome is an anti-genealogy. The same applies to the book and the world: contrary to a deeply rooted belief, the book is not an image of the world. It forms a rhizome with the world, there is an aparallel evolution of the book and the world; the book assures the deterritorialization of the world, but the world effects a reterritorialization of the book, which in turn deterritorializes itself in the world (if it is capable, if it can). Mimicry is a very bad concept, since it relies on binary logic to describe phenomena of an entirely different nature. The crocodile does not reproduce a tree trunk, any more than the chameleon reproduces the colors of its surroundings. The Pink Panther imitates nothing, it reproduces nothing, it paints the world its color, pink on pink; this is its becoming-world, carried out in such a way that it becomes imperceptible itself, asignifying, makes its rupture, its own line of flight, follows its "aparallel evolution" through to the end. The wisdom of the plants: even when they have roots, there is always an outside where they form a rhizome with something else-with the wind, an animal, human beings (and there is also an aspect under which animals themselves form rhizomes, as do people, etc.). "Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us." Always follow the rhizome by rupture; lengthen, prolong, and relay the line of flight; make it vary, until you have produced the most abstract and tortuous of lines of n dimensions and broken directions. Conjugate deterritorialized flows. Follow the plants: you start by delimiting a first line consisting of circles of convergence around successive singularities; then you see whether Inside that line new circles of convergence establish themselves, with new points located outside the limits and in other directions. Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency. "Go first to your old plant and watch carefully the watercourse made by the rain. By now the rain must have carried the seeds far away. Watch the crevices made by the runoff, and from them determine the direction of the flow. Then find the plant that is growing at the farthest point from your plant. All the devil's weed plants that are growing in between are yours. Later ... you can extend the size of your territory by following the watercourse from each point along the way."7 Music has always sent out lines of flight, like so many "transformational multiplicities," even overturning the very codes that structure or

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arborify it; that is why musical form, right down to its ruptures and proliferations, is comparable to a weed, a rhizome.8

5 and 6. Principle of cartography and decalcomania: a rhizome is not amenable to any structural or generative model. It is a stranger to any idea of genetic axis or deep structure. A genetic axis is like an objective pivotal unity upon which successive stages are organized; a deep structure is more like a base sequence that can be broken down into immediate constituents, while the unity of the product passes into another, transformational and subjective, dimension. This does not constitute a departure from the representative model of the tree, or root-pivotal taproot or fascicles (for example, Chomsky's "tree" is associated with a base sequence and represents the process of its own generation in terms of binary logic). A variation on the oldest form of thought. It is our view that genetic axis and profound structure are above all infinitely reproducible principles of tracing. All of tree logic is a logic of tracing and reproduction. In linguistics as in psychoanalysis, its object is an unconscious that is itself representative, crystallized into codified complexes, laid out along a genetic axis and distributed within a syntagmatic structure. Its goal is to describe a de facto state, to maintain balance in intersubjective relations, or to explore an unconscious that is already there from the start, lurking in the dark recesses of memory and language. It consists of tracing, on the basis of an overcoding structure or supporting axis, something that comes ready-made. The tree articulates and hierarchizes tracings; tracings are like the leaves of a tree. The rhizome is altogether different, a map and not a tracing. Make a map, not a tracing. The orchid does not reproduce the tracing of the wasp; it forms a map with the wasp, in a rhizome. What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs the unconscious. It fosters connections between fields, the removal of blockages on bodies without organs, the maximum opening of bodies without organs onto a plane of consistency. It is itself a part of the rhizome. The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived of as a work of art, constructed as a political action or as a meditation. Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of the rhizome is that it always has multiple entryways; in this sense, the burrow is an animal rhizome, and sometimes maintains a clear distinction between the line of flight as passageway and storage or living strata (cf. the muskrat). A map has multiple entryways, as opposed to the tracing, which always comes back "to the same." The map has to do with performance, whereas the trac

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ing always involves an alleged "competence." Unlike psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic competence (which confines every desire and statement to a genetic axis or overcoding structure, and makes infinite, monotonous tracings of the stages on that axis or the constituents of that structure), schizoanalysis rejects any idea of pretraced destiny, whatever name is given to it-divine, anagogic, historical, economic, structural, hereditary, or syntagmatic. (It is obvious that Melanie Klein has no understanding of the cartography of one of her child patients, Little Richard, and is content to make ready-made tracings-Oedipus, the good daddy and the bad daddy, the bad mommy and the good mommy-while the child makes a desperate attempt to carry out a performance that the psychoanalyst totally misconstrues.)9 Drives and part-objects are neither stages on a genetic axis nor positions in a deep structure; they are political options for problems, they are entryways and exits, impasses the child lives out politically, in other words, with all the force of his or her desire. Have we not, however, reverted to a simple dualism by contrasting maps to tracings, as good and bad sides? Is it not of the essence of the map to be traceable? Is it not of the essence of the rhizome to intersect roots and sometimes merge with them? Does not a map contain phenomena of redundancy that are already like tracings of its own? Does not a multiplicity have strata upon which unifications and totalizations, massifications, mimetic mechanisms, signifying power takeovers, and subjective attributions take root? Do not even lines of flight, due to their eventual divergence, reproduce the very formations their function it was to dismantle or outflank? But the opposite is also true. It is a question of method: the tracing should always be put back on the map. This operation and the previous one are not at all symmetrical. For it is inaccurate to say that a tracing reproduces the map. It is instead like a photograph or X ray that begins by selecting or isolating, by artificial means such as colorations or other restrictive procedures, what it intends to reproduce. The imitator always creates the model, and attracts it. The tracing has already translated the map into an image; it has already transformed the rhizome into roots and radicles. It has organized, stabilized, neutralized the multiplicities according to the axes of signifiance and subjectification belonging to it. It has generated, structuralized the rhizome, and when it thinks it is reproducing something else it is in fact only reproducing itself. That is why the tracing is so dangerous. It injects redundancies and propagates them. What the tracing reproduces of the map or rhizome are only the impasses, blockages, incipient taproots, or points of structuration. Take a look at psychoanalysis and linguistics: all the former has ever made are tracings or photos of the unconscious, and the latter of language, with all the betrayals that implies (it's not surprising that psychoanalysis tied its fate to that of linguistics).

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Look at what happened to Little Hans already, an example of child psychoanalysis at its purest: they kept on BREAKING HIS RHIZOME and BLOTCHING HIS MAP, setting it straight for him, blocking his every way out, until he began to desire his own shame and guilt, until they had rooted shame and guilt in him, PHOBIA (they barred him from the rhizome of the building, then from the rhizome of the street, they rooted him in his parents' bed, they radicled him to his own body, they fixated him on Professor Freud). Freud explicitly takes Little Hans's cartography into account, but always and only in order to project it back onto the family photo. And look what Melanie Klein did to Little Richard's geopolitical maps: she developed photos from them, made tracings of them. Strike the pose or follow the axis, genetic stage or structural destiny-one way or the other, your rhizome will be broken. You will be allowed to live and speak, but only after every outlet has been obstructed. Once a rhizome has been obstructed, arborified, it's all over, no desire stirs; for it is always by rhizome that desire moves and produces. Whenever desire climbs a tree, internal repercussions trip it up and it falls to its death; the rhizome, on the other hand, acts on desire by external, productive outgrowths. That is why it is so important to try the other, reverse but nonsymmetrical, operation. Plug the tracings back into the map, connect the roots or trees back up with a rhizome. In the case of Little Hans, studying the unconscious would be to show how he tries to build a rhizome, with the family house but also with the line of flight of the building, the street, etc.; how these lines are blocked, how the child is made to take root in the family, be photographed under the father, be traced onto the mother's bed; then how Professor Freud's intervention assures a power takeover by the signifier, a subjectification of affects; how the only escape route left to the child is a becoming-animal perceived as shameful and guilty (the becoming-horse of Little Hans, a truly political option). But these impasses must always be resituated on the map, thereby opening them up to possible lines of flight. The same applies to the group map: show at what point in the rhizome there form phenomena of massification, bureaucracy, leadership, fascization, etc., which lines nevertheless survive, if only underground, continuing to make rhizome in the shadows. Deligny's method: map the gestures and movements of an autistic child, combine several maps for the same child, for several different children.10 If it is true that it is of the essence of the map or rhizome to have multiple entryways, then it is plausible that one could even enter them through tracings or the roottree, assuming the necessary precautions are taken (once again, one must avoid any Manichaean dualism). For example, one will often be forced to take dead ends, to work with signifying powers and subjective affections, to find a foothold in formations that are Oedipal or paranoid or even worse,

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rigidified territorialities that open the way for other transformational operations. It is even possible for psychoanalysis to serve as a foothold, in spite of itself. In other cases, on the contrary, one will bolster oneself directly on a line of flight enabling one to blow apart strata, cut roots, and make new connections. Thus, there are very diverse map-tracing, rhizomeroot assemblages, with variable coefficients of deterritorialization. There exist tree or root structures in rhizomes; conversely, a tree branch or root division may begin to burgeon into a rhizome. The coordinates are determined not by theoretical analyses implying universals but by a pragmatics composing multiplicities or aggregates of intensities. A new rhizome may form in the heart of a tree, the hollow of a root, the crook of a branch. Or else it is a microscopic element of the root-tree, a radicle, that gets rhizome production going. Accounting and bureaucracy proceed by tracings: they can begin to burgeon nonetheless, throwing out rhizome stems, as in a Kafka novel. An intensive trait starts working for itself, a hallucinatory perception, synesthesia, perverse mutation, or play of images shakes loose, challenging the hegemony of the signifier. In the case of the child, gestural, mimetic, ludic, and other semiotic systems regain their freedom and extricate themselves from the "tracing," that is, from the dominant competence of the teacher's language-a microscopic event upsets the local balance of power. Similarly, generative trees constructed according to Chomsky's syntagmatic model can open up in all directions, and in turn form a rhizome.11 To be rhizomorphous is to produce stems and filaments that seem to be roots, or better yet connect with them by penetrating the trunk, but put them to strange new uses. We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics. Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial roots, adventitious growths and rhizomes. Amsterdam, a city entirely without roots, a rhizome-city with its stem-canals, where utility connects with the greatest folly in relation to a commercial war machine. Thought is not arborescent, and the brain is not a rooted or ramified matter. What are wrongly called "dendrites" do not assure the connection of neurons in a continuous fabric. The discontinuity between cells, the role of the axons, the functioning of the synapses, the existence of synaptic microfissures, the leap each message makes across these fissures, make the brain a multiplicity immersed in its plane of consistency or neuroglia, a whole uncertain, probabilistic system ("the uncertain nervous system"). Many people have a tree growing in their heads, but the brain itself is much more a grass than a tree. "The axon and the dendrite twist around each other like bindweed around brambles, with synapses at each of the thorns."12 The same goes for memory. Neurologists and psychophysiolo

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quantitative: short-term memory is of the rhizome or diagram type, and long-term memory is arborescent and centralized (imprint, engram, tracing, or photograph). Short-term memory is in no way subject to a law of contiguity or immediacy to its object; it can act at a distance, come or return a long time after, but always under conditions of discontinuity, rupture, and multiplicity. Furthermore, the difference between the two kinds of memory is not that of two temporal modes of apprehending the same thing; they do not grasp the same thing, memory, or idea. The splendor of the short-term Idea: one writes using short-term memory, and thus short-term ideas, even if one reads or rereads using long-term memory of long-term concepts. Short-term memory includes forgetting as a process; it merges not with the instant but instead with the nervous, temporal, and collective rhizome. Long-term memory (family, race, society, or civilization) traces and translates, but what it translates continues to act in it, from a distance, off beat, in an "untimely" way, not instantaneously. The tree and root inspire a sad image of thought that is forever imitating the multiple on the basis of a centered or segmented higher unity. If we consider the set, branches-roots, the trunk plays the role of opposed segment for one of the subsets running from bottom to top: this kind of segment is a "link dipole," in contrast to the "unit dipoles" formed by spokes radiating from a single center.13 Even if the links themselves proliferate, as in the radicle system, one can never get beyond the One-Two, and fake multiplicities. Regenerations, reproductions, returns, hydras, and medusas do not get us any further. Arborescent systems are hierarchical systems with centers of signifiance and subjectification, central automata like organized memories. In the corresponding models, an element only receives information from a higher unit, and only receives a subjective affection along preestablished paths. This is evident in current problems in information science and computer science, which still cling to the oldest modes of thought in that they grant all power to a memory or central organ. Pierre Rosenstiehl and Jean Petitot, in a fine article denouncing "the imagery of command trees" (centered systems or hierarchical structures), note that "accepting the primacy of hierarchical structures amounts to giving arborescent structures privileged status.... The arborescent form admits of topological explanation.... In a hierarchical system, an individual has only one active neighbor, his or her hierarchical superior….The channels of transmission are preestablished: the arborescent system preexists the individual, who is integrated into it at an allotted place" (signifiance and subjectification). The authors point out that even when one thinks one has reached a multiplicity, it may be a false one-of what we call the radicle

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type-because its ostensibly nonhierarchical presentation or statement in fact only admits of a totally hierarchical solution. An example is the famous friendship theorem: "If any two given individuals in a society have precisely one mutual friend, then there exists an individual who is the friend of all the others." (Rosenstiehl and Petitot ask who that mutual friend is. Who is "the universal friend in this society of couples: the master, the confessor, the doctor? These ideas are curiously far removed from the initial axioms." Who is this friend of humankind? Is it the philo-sopher as he appears in classical thought, even if he is an aborted unity that makes itself felt only through its absence or subjectivity, saying all the while, I know nothing, I am nothing?) Thus the authors speak of dictatorship theorems. Such is indeed the principle of roots-trees, or their outcome: the radicle solution, the structure of Power.14 To these centered systems, the authors contrast acentered systems, finite networks of automata in which communication runs from any neigh- bor to any other, the stems or channels do not preexist, and all individuals are interchangeable, defined only by their stateat a given moment-such that the local operations are coordinated and the final, global result syn- chronized without a central agency. Transduction of intensive states replaces topology, and "the graph regulating the circulation of information is in a way the opposite of the hierarchical graph….There is no reason for the graph to be a tree" (we have been calling this kind of graph a map). The problem of the war machine, or the firing squad: is a general necessary for n individuals to manage to fire in unison? The solution without a General is to be found in an acentered multiplicity possessing a finite number of states with signals to indicate corresponding speeds, from a war rhizome or guerrilla logic point of view, without any tracing, without any copying of a central order. The authors even demonstrate that this kind of machinic multiplicity, assemblage, or society rejects any centralizing or unifying automaton as an "asocial intrusion."15 Under these conditions, n is in fact always n – 1. Rosenstiehl and Petitot emphasize that the opposition, centered-acentered, is valid less as a designation for things than as a mode of calculation applied to things. Trees may correspond to the rhizome, or they may burgeon into a rhizome. It is true that the same thing is generally susceptible to both modes of calculation or both types of regulation, but not without undergoing a change in state. Take psychoanalysis as an exam- ple again: it subjects the unconscious to arborescent structures, hierarchical graphs, recapitulatory memories, central organs, the phallus, the phallus-tree-not only in its theory but also in its practice of calculation and treatment. Psychoanalysis cannot change its method in this regard: it bases its own dictatorial power upon a dictatorial conception of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis's margin of maneuverability is therefore very

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limited. In both psychoanalysis and its object, there is always a general, always a leader (General Freud). Schizoanalysis, on the other hand, treats the unconscious as an acentered system, in other words, as a machinic network of finite automata (a rhizome), and thus arrives at an entirely different state of the unconscious. These same remarks apply to linguistics; Rosenstiehl and Petitot are right to bring up the possibility of an "acentered organization of a society of words." For both statements and desires, the issue is never to reduce the unconscious or to interpret it or to make it signify according to a tree model. The issue is to produce the unconscious, and with it new statements, different desires: the rhizome is precisely this production of the unconscious. It is odd how the tree has dominated Western reality and all of Western thought, from botany to biology and anatomy, but also gnosiology, theology, ontology, all of philosophy ...: the rootfoundation, Grund, racine, fondement. The West has a special relation to the forest, and deforestation; the fields carved from the forest are populated with seed plants produced by cultivation based on species lineages of the arborescent type; animal raising, carried out on fallow fields, selects lineages forming an entire animal arborescence. The East presents a different figure: a relation to the steppe and the garden (or in some cases, the desert and the oasis),, rather than forest and field; cultivation of tubers by fragmentation of the individual; a casting aside or bracketing of animal raising, which is confined to closed spaces or pushed out onto the steppes of the nomads. The West: agriculture based on a chosen lineage containing a large number of variable individuals. The East: horticulture based on a small number of individuals derived from a wide range of "clones." Does not the East, Oceania in particular, offer something like a rhizomatic model opposed in every respect to the Western model of the tree? André Haudricourt even sees this as the basis for the opposition between the moralities or philosophies of transcendence dear to the West and the immanent ones of the East: the God who sows and reaps, as opposed to the God who replants and unearths (replanting of offshoots versus sowing of seeds).16 Transcendence: a specifically European disease. Neither is music the same, the music of the earth is different, as is sexuality: seed plants, even those with two sexes in the same plant, subjugate sexuality to the reproductive model; the rhizome, on the other hand, is a liberation of sexuality not only from reproduction but also from genitality. Here in the West, the tree has implanted itself in our bodies, rigidifying and stratifying even the sexes. We have lost the rhizome, or the grass. Henry Miller: "China is the weed in the human cabbage patch. ... The weed is the Nemesis of human endeavor... Of all the imaginary existences we attribute to plant, beast and star the weed leads the most satisfactory life of all. True, the weed produces no lilies, no battleships, no Ser

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mons on the Mount... Eventually the weed gets the upper hand. Eventually things fall back into a state of China. This condition is usually referred to by historians as the Dark Age. Grass is the only way out.... The weed exists only to fill the waste spaces left by cultivated areas. It grows between, among other things. The lily is beautiful, the cabbage is provender, the poppy is maddening-but the weed is rank growth ... : it points a moral."17 Which China is Miller talking about? The old China, the new, an imaginary one, or yet another located on a shifting map? America is a special case. Of course it is not immune from domination by trees or the search for roots. This is evident even in the literature, in the quest for a national identity and even for a European ancestry or genealogy (Kerouac going off in search of his ancestors). Nevertheless, everything important that has happened or is happening takes the route of the American rhizome: the beatniks, the underground, bands and gangs, successive lateral offshoots in immediate connection with an outside. American books are different from European books, even when the American sets off in pursuit of trees. The conception of the book is different. Leaves of Grass. And directions in America are different: the search for arborescence and the return to the Old World occur in the East. But there is the rhizomatic West, with its Indians without ancestry, its ever-receding limit, its shifting and displaced frontiers. There is a whole American "map" in the West, where even the trees form rhizomes. America reversed the directions: it put its Orient in the West, as if it were precisely in America that the earth came full circle; its West is the edge of the East.18 (India is not the intermediary between the Occident and the Orient, as Haudricourt believed: America is the pivot point and mechanism of reversal.) The American singer Patti Smith sings the bible of the American dentist: Don't go for the root, follow the canal ... Are there not also two kinds of bureaucracy, or even three (or still more)? Western bureaucracy: its agrarian, cadastral origins; roots and fields; trees and their role as frontiers; the great census of William the Conqueror; feudalism; the policies of the kings of France; making property the basis of the State; negotiating land through warfare, litigation, and marriages. The kings of France chose the lily because it is a plant with deep roots that clings to slopes. Is bureaucracy the same in the Orient? Of course it is all too easy to depict an Orient of rhizomes and immanence; yet it is true that in the Orient the State does not act following a schema of arborescence corresponding to preestablished, arborified, and rooted classes; its bureaucracy is one of channels, for example, the much-discussed case of hydraulic power with "weak property," in which the State engenders channeled and channelizing classes (cf. the aspects of Wittfogel's work that have not been refuted).19The despot acts as a river, not as a fountainhead, which is still a

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point, a tree-point or root; he flows with the current rather than sitting under a tree; Buddha's tree itself becomes a rhizome; Mao's river and Louis's tree. Has not America acted as an intermediary here as well? For it proceeds both by internal exterminations and liquidations (not only the Indians but also the farmers, etc.), and by successive waves of immigration from the outside. The flow of capital produces an immense channel, a quantification of power with immediate "quanta," where each person profits from the passage of the money flow in his or her own way (hence the reality-myth of the poor man who strikes it rich and then falls into poverty again): in America everything comes together, tree and channel, root and rhizome. There is no universal capitalism, there is no capitalism in itself-, capitalism is at the crossroads of all kinds of formations, it is neocapitalism by nature. It invents its eastern face and western face, and reshapes them both-all for the worst. At the same time, we are on the wrong track with all these geographical distributions. An impasse. So much the better. If it is a question of showing that rhizomes also have their own, even more rigid, despotism and hierarchy, then fine and good: for there is no dualism, no ontological dualism between here and there, no axiological dualism between good and bad, no blend or American synthesis. There are knots of arborescence in rhizomes, and rhizomatic offshoots in roots. Moreover, there are despotic formations of immanence and channelization specific to rhizomes, just as there are anarchic deformations in the transcendent system of trees, aerial roots, and subterranean stems. The important point is that the root-tree and canal-rhizome are not two opposed models: the first operates as a transcendent model and tracing, even if it engenders its own escapes; the second operates as an immanent process that overturns the model and outlines a map, even if it constitutes its own hierarchies, even if it gives rise to a despotic channel. It is not a question of this or that place on earth, or of a given moment in history, still less of this or that category of thought. It is a question of a model that is perpetually in construction or collapsing, and of a process that is perpetually prolonging itself, breaking off and starting up again. No, this is not a new or different dualism. The problem of writing: in order to designate something exactly, anexact expressions are utterly unavoidable. Not at all because it is a necessary step, or because one can only advance by approximations: anexactitude is in no way an approximation; on the contrary, it is the exact passage of that which is under way. We invoke one dualism only in order to challenge another. We employ a dualism of models only in order to arrive at a process that challenges all models. Each time, mental correctives are necessary to undo the dualisms we had no wish to construct but through which we pass. Arrive at the magic formula we all seek-PLURALISM = MONISM-via all the dualisms that are

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the enemy, an entirely necessary enemy, the furniture we are forever rearranging.

 Let us summarize the principal characteristics of a rhizome: unlike trees or their roots, the rhizome connects any point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature; it brings into play very different regimes of signs, and even nonsign states. The rhizome is reducible neither to the One nor the multiple. It is not the One that becomes Two or even directly three, four, five, etc. It is not a multiple derived from the One, or to which One is added (n + 1). It is composed not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion. It has neither beginning nor end, but always a middle (milieu) from which it grows and which it overspills. It constitutes linear multiplicities with n dimensions having neither subject nor object, which can be laid out on a plane of consistency, and from which the One is always subtracted (n - 1). When a multiplicity of this kind changes dimension, it necessarily changes in nature as well, undergoes a metamorphosis. Unlike a structure, which is defined by a set of points and positions, with binary relations between the points and blunivocal relationships between the positions, the rhizome is made only of lines: lines of segmentarity and stratification as its dimensions, and the line of flight or deterritorialization as the maximum dimension after which the multiplicity undergoes metamorphosis, changes in nature. These lines, or lineaments, should not be confused with lineages of the arborescent type, which are merely localizable linkages between points and positions. Unlike the tree, the rhizome is not the object of reproduction: neither external reproduction as image-tree nor internal reproduction as tree-structure. The rhizome is an antigenealogy. It is a short-term memory, or antimemory.The rhizome operates by variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots. Unlike the graphic arts, drawing, or photography, unlike tracings, the rhizome pertains to a map that must be produced, constructed, a map that is always detachable, connectable, reversible, modifiable, and has multiple entryways and exits and its own lines of flight. It is tracings that must be put on the map, not the opposite. In contrast to centered (even polycentric) systems with hierarchical modes of communication and preestablished paths, the rhizome is an acentered, nonhierarchical, nonsignifying system without a General and without an organizing memory or central automaton, defined solely by a circulation of states.What is at question in the rhizome is a relation to sexuality-but also to the animal, the vegetal, the world, politics, the book, things natural and artificial-that is totally different from the arborescent relation: all manner of "becomings."

A plateau is always in the middle, not at the beginning or the end. A rhizome is made of plateaus. Gregory Bateson uses the word "plateau" to

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designate something very special: a continuous, self-vibrating region of intensities whose development avoids any orientation toward a culmination point or external end. Bateson cites Balinese culture as an example: mother-child sexual games, and even quarrels among men, undergo this bizarre intensive stabilization. "Some sort of continuing plateau of intensity is substituted for [sexual] climax," war, or a culmination point. It is a regrettable characteristic of the Western mind to relate expressions and actions to exterior or transcendent ends, instead of evaluating them on a plane of consistency on the basis of their intrinsic value.20 For example, a book composed of chapters has culmination and termination points. What takes place in a book composed instead of plateaus that communicate with one another across microfissures, as in a brain? We call a "plateau" any multiplicity connected to other multiplicities by superficial underground stems in such a way as to form or extend a rhizome. We are writing this book as a rhizome. It is composed of plateaus. We have given it a circular form, but only for laughs. Each morning we would wake up, and each of us would ask himself what plateau he was going to tackle, writing five lines here, ten there. We had hallucinatory experiences, we watched lines leave one plateau and proceed to another like columns of tiny ants. We made circles of convergence. Each plateau can be read starting anywhere and can be related to any other plateau. To attain the multiple, one must have a method that effectively constructs it; no typographical cleverness, no lexical agility, no blending or creation of words, no syntactical boldness, can substitute for it. In fact, these are more often than not merely mimetic procedures used to disseminate or disperse a unity that is retained in a different dimension for an image-book. Technonarcissism. Typographical, lexical, or syntactic creations are necessary only when they no longer belong to the form of expression of a hidden unity, becoming themselves dimensions of the multiplicity under consideration; we only know of rare successes in this.21 We ourselves were unable to do it. We just used words that in turn function for us as plateaus. RHIZOMATICS = SCHIZOANALYSIS = STRATOANALYSIS = PRAGMATICS = MICROPOLITics. These words are concepts, but concepts are lines, which is to say, number systems attached to a particular dimension of the multiplicities (strata, molecular chains, lines of flight or rupture, circles of convergence, etc.). Nowhere do we claim for our concepts the title of a science. We are no more familiar with scientificity than we are with ideology; all we know are assemblages. And the only assemblages are machinic assemblages of desire and collective assemblages of enunciation. No signifiance, no subjectification: writing to the nth power (all individuated enunciation remains trapped within the dominant significations, all signifying desire is associated with dominated subjects). An assemblage, in its multiplicity, necessarily acts on semiotic flows,

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material flows, and social flows simultaneously (independently of any recapitulation that may be made of it in a scientific or theoretical corpus). There is no longer a tripartite division between a field of reality (the world) and a field of representation (the book) and a field of subjectivity (the author). Rather, an assemblage establishes connections between certain multiplicities drawn from each of these orders, so that a book has no sequel nor the world as its object nor one or several authors as its subject. In short, we think that one cannot write sufficiently in the name of an outside. The outside has no image, no signification, no subjectivity. The book as assemblage with the outside, against the book as image of the world. A rhizomebook, not a dichotomous, pivotal, or fascicular book. Never send down roots, or plant them, however difficult it may be to avoid reverting to the old procedures. "Those things which occur to me, occur to me not from the root up but rather only from somewhere about their middle. Let someone then attempt to seize them, let someone attempt to seize a blade of grass and hold fast to it when it begins to grow only from the middle."22 Why is this so difficult? The question is directly one of perceptual semiotics. It's not easy to see things in the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes. It's not easy to see the grass in things and in words (similarly, Nietzsche said that an aphorism had to be "ruminated"; never is a plateau separable from the cows that populate it, which are also the clouds in the sky). History is always written from the sedentary point of view and in the name of a unitary State apparatus, at least a possible one, even when the topic is nomads. What is lacking is a Nomadology, the opposite of a history. There are rare successes in this also, for example, on the subject of the Children's Crusades: Marcel Schwob's book multiplies narratives like so many plateaus with variable numbers of dimensions. Then there is Andrzejewski's book, Les portes du paradis (The gates of paradise), composed of a single uninterrupted sentence; a flow of children; a flow of walking with pauses, straggling, and forward rushes; the semiotic flow of the confessions of all the children who go up to the old monk at the head of the procession to make their declarations; a flow of desire and sexuality, each child having left out of love and more or less directly led by the dark posthumous pederastic desire of the count of Vendôme; all this with circles of convergence. What is important is not whether the flows are "One or multiple"-we're past that point: there is a collective assemblage of enunciation, a machinic assemblage of desire, one inside the other and both Plugged into an immense outside that is a multiplicity in any case. A more recent example is Armand Farrachi's book on the Fourth Crusade, La dislocation,in which the sentences space themselves out and disperse, or else

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jostle together and coexist, and in which the letters, the typography begin to dance as the crusade grows more delirious.23 These are models of nomadic and rhizomatic writing. Writing weds a war machine and lines of flight, abandoning the strata, segmentarities, sedentarity, the State apparatus. But why is a model still necessary? Aren't these books still "images" of the Crusades? Don't they still retain a unity, in Schwob's case a pivotal unity, in Farrachi's an aborted unity, and in the most beautiful example, Les portes du paradis, the unity of the funereal count? Is there a need for a more profound nomadism than that of the Crusades, a nomadism of true nomads, or of those who no longer even move or imitate anything? The nomadism of those who only assemble (agencent). How can the book find an adequate outside with which to assemble in heterogeneity, rather than a world to reproduce? The cultural book is necessarily a tracing: already a tracing of itself, a tracing of the previous book by the same author, a tracing of other books however different they may be, an endless tracing of established concepts and words, a tracing of the world present, past, and future. Even the anticultural book may still be burdened by too heavy a cultural load: but it will use it actively, for forgetting instead of remembering, for underdevelopment instead of progress toward development, in nomadism rather than sedentarity, to make a map instead of a tracing. RHIZOMATICS = POP ANALYSIS, even if the people have other things to do besides read it, even if the blocks of academic culture or pseudoscientificity in it are still too painful or ponderous. For science would go completely mad if left to its own devices. Look at mathematics: it's not a science, it's a monster slang, it's nomadic. Even in the realm of theory, especially in the realm of theory, any precarious and pragmatic framework is better than tracing concepts, with their breaks and progress changing nothing. Imperceptible rupture, not signifying break. The nomads invented a war machine in opposition to the State apparatus. History has never comprehended nomadism, the book has never comprehended the outside. The State as the model for the book and for thought has a long history: logos, the philosopher-king, the transcendence of the Idea, the interiority of the concept, the republic of minds, the court of reason, the functionaries of thought, man as legislator and subject. The State's pretension to be a world order, and to root man. The war machine's relation to an outside is not another "model"; it is an assemblage that makes thought itself nomadic, and the book a working part in every mobile machine, a stem for a rhizome (Kleist and Kafka against Goethe). Write to the nth power, the n - 1 power, write with slogans: Make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don't sow, grow offshoots! Don't be one or multiple, be multiplicities! Run lines, never plot a point! Speed turns the point into a line!24 Be quick, even when standing still! Line of chance, line

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of hips, line of flight. Don't bring out the General in you! Don't have just ideas, just have an idea (Godard). Have short-term ideas. Make maps, not photos or drawings. Be the Pink Panther and your loves will be like the wasp and the orchid, the cat and the baboon. As they say about old man river:

He don't plant 'tatos Don't plant cotton Them that plants them is soon forgotten But old man river he just keeps rollin' along

A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb "to be" but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, "and ... and ... and..."This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb "to be." Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions. Making a clean slate, starting or beginning again from ground zero, seeking a beginning or a foundation-all imply a false conception of voyage and movement (a conception that is methodical, pedagogical, initiatory, symbolic ... ). But Kleist, Lenz, and Büchner have another way of traveling and moving: proceeding from the middle, through the middle, coming and going rather than starting and finishing.25 American literature, and already English literature, manifest this rhizomatic direction to an even greater extent; they know how to move between things, establish a logic of the AND, overthrow ontology, do away with foundations, nullify endings and beginnings. They know how to practice pragmatics. The middle is by no means an average; on the contrary, it is where things pick up speed. Between things does not designate a localizable relation going from one thing to the other and back again, but a perpendicular direction, a transversal movement that sweeps one and the other away, a stream without beginning or end that undermines its banks and picks up speed in the middle.

Jo-Ha-Kyu Co-creation　method

We proceed a Rhizome revolution of subbody Resonance Butoh method day by day.
We eliminate the Tree type hierarchical way of creation which a choreography directs the creation, we orient the Rhizome type co-creation. Tree type choreographer or director is old fashion and disturbs the rebelation of the Life Resonance of infinite creativity of Life.
Everyone can open the infinite creativity of Life by Medimotion conditioning and invent new Qualia to developing the Jo-Ha-Kyu of co-creation by initiating, promoting and following and co-creates total theater together as a Rhizome.

Jo-Ha-Kyu Co-creation

1. Jo (Beginning): Someone (A) initiats the beginning Qualia by Dreaming Share method. Other dancers resonate with it in various resonance patterns.

2. Ha 1 (Break 1): Someone (B) brings in new Qualia of break 1. The others resonate and switch the scene.

3. Ha 2 (Break 2): Someone (C) brings new Qualia of break 2. The others resonate and switch the scene.

4. Ha 3 (Break 3): Someone (D) brings new Qualia of break 3. The others resonate and switch the scene.

5. Kyu (Climax and ending): Someone (E) brings in the new Qualia for the last climax. The others resonate with it in various ways and co-create the ending.

The essence of this method is that everyone invents and brings in new Qualia and causes the world transformation by the resonance.
Sometimes one or more people take the initiative by bringing in new Qualia.
If you bring new qualia with a couple of people, the momentum may become stronger.

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Questing the inevitable Butoh

Digging the deepest Life Resonance that has been forgotten

How can I break down the step-up education theory that I was trapped?
It is the inevitable penetration of forgotten Life Resonance.
While searching for the necessary Butoh of one's own, to quest the deepest Life Resonance that has been forgotten, marginalized and dissociated.

Ask your Life, "Why do you dance?"

Ask the Life instead of the ego or self.
They have been lost the proto Life Resonance by the daily repetition of the Qualia of self identity.
"I'm strong, I'm kind, I'm right, I'm polite, I'm intelligent, I'm sensitive, I'm creative, I'm, I'm, I'm......"
That repetition has destroyed the creativity of Life.
Take off all condition of the human; identity, personality, sexuality, nationality, etc.
If you have cleared up enough of them it will lead you to not extend ego or self to the world.
Your Life must recover the most fundamental Life Resonance with such a weakened, disabled, collapsed people. Not only people, but also all kind of living things.

Dig the deepest forgotten Life Resonance. It must be your inevitable Butoh.

Ah, Minamata!
Hiroshima!
Auschwitz!

Today, while studying techniques of Kugutsu bodies and Vaporized bodies, we continue to quest inevitable Butoh of Life for each.

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Cobody Dreaming Share

Today we did the first "Cobody Dreaming Share".
After opening various Hidden skins, we try to remember the forgotten memory of cobody or co-being. During four billion years Life history, our Life experienced so many resonance patterns of Life Resonance.
The first 3 billion years, Life was the one-celled creature.
1 billion years ago, Life invented the new resonance pattern of the group cell. It was one of the greatest inventions that lead to the multi-celled creature in the Life history.
Each cell could resonate properly in the subtle distance between the contact and not contact that we named the placenta layer Hidden skin in the subbody method.
(This was the missing link that makes able to realize the <Cobody Dreaming Share>.)
We practiced it, and we tried to remember the forgotten memory that we were resonating in various cobodies as diverse creatures.
We share each one's cobody dreaming with movement and minimum words.

Unfolding Another Dimension

Diverse cobody images came out one after another. As if another dimension is unfolding.
This is a characteristic phenomenon of Qualia in the dreaming.
From very subtle Qualia that is almost nothing, a specific world unfolded and appear as a special world.
We enjoyed this interesting process.
We will continue this sharing a lot in various ways.
We will get so many cobody resonance patterns, and able to use it in our co-creation flexibly.

Today, the following <Cobody Dreaming Share> we got.

Vishal: Mother's womb
Nabela: Breaking seed
Maria: Spiderweb
Tzaddi: Insect Liberation
Natalia: Ancestor drinking tea in the garden
Gora: No name
Ruusu: Summer rain
Prerna: Snowfall
Mohet: Snakeskin
Luv: Plague
Zalina: Hermit Crab
Varun: Ulal King statue
Samer: Unsafe workspace

One after another 13 unique cobody worlds were appearing.
To see it was as if we were in a magical world.
I was surprised that the creativity of Life is truly infinite.
All of these cobody images will be shared by this year's co-researcher as the common property. They are so lucky that can collaborate based on such rich materials.
So, finally, we could complete the subbody=cobody co-creation method after 20 years struggle.

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Rhizome Revolution of Subbody method 1

From this summer, we undertook fundamental reform of subbody technique.
I realized the necessity as I read the practical guide again and tried to re-edit.
It is necessary to have a fundamental revolution.

Let’s become the free traveler between Rhizome=Qualia and Tree=Language realm.

For the travel in the darkness of the body,
we need to know the fundamental difference between the daily body world and Qualia stream in the subconscious body (subbody=cobody) realm.

The difference between Qualia and words

Let's give some big differences.
Qualia is the resonance of life. Resonance has no subject or object, it happens from either.
But when we try to put it into words, the words can not leave from its own grammar of subject predicates.
It transforms fundamentally to another thing.
There are no numbers and no order in the Qualia. However, by the reasons of easy to understand, if we order the numbers, we can not avoid the fundamental alteration.
Since ten years ago, I have written down the new technique born every day in the sentence.
And while we ran these careless mistakes, I could not notice it well.
Under consciousness, there was no fear of being (somewhere different?).
However, the word was a big stretch and it proceeded across it.
Let's confirm the difference between qualia and words more.
Language goes straight. The description goes forward and it is arranged under a hierarchical order.
However, Qualia resonate in a non-dual multidimensional world, so there is neither before nor back.
There is neither above nor below. There is no hierarchical order or anything.
The part of Qualia is always away from the whole, flowing everywhere,
It can resonate with anything else and become one. Parts will always be the whole,
One whole can become a part of something else at any time.
There are no differences between whole and part, kind and individual in Qualia. Based on sorting them none of the usually known logic can be used. Qualia jump wildly over those constraints with confidence, Qualia transform freely.

To be Subbody=cobody and to become Life

We try to take off all human conditions; Ego, Self, Identity, Sexuality nationality and so on, and we try to become Life.
It is not so easy, very hard rocess to meet many hardships in the process.
We need to one Life to overcome all issues that we will encounter.
For it, we need to share 3 important maxims.

1. No talking
2. No absent
3. No late

This is the tradition of the Subbody School for these 15 years.
When everybody respect and shares these 3 rules as own maxim, we can be the co-being as the co-midwife, co-researcher and co-creator.
To share everything that happens in the class and try to find the best resonance pattern, it is the necessary process to become Life.

Let's enjoy it with becoming subbody-cobody and share each one's finding. This is only one place that we become co-reseacher, co-midwife and co-creator as Life.
There is no other way to quest the mystery and secret of Life.

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Rhizome Conditioning

1. Sit at a quiet place and listen to subtle Qualia in and around the body. Let legs free and your head is hung by a string from the sky.

2. A part of your body (ex. 5th chest vertebra) is pulled by a string forward and the other vertebras follow it, and backward, too.

3. Various parts of the body are moved in various directions slowly. Find the most comfortable speed and size.

4. Each part of your body is released from the daily role, the head becomes the supporting leg and legs become dancers.

5. Each part of the body is deterritorized from the daily fixed position and starts dancing.

6. It happens beyond the border of self and others, someone’s head becomes your stomach, and your arm becomes someone’s leg.

7. Dance in the between, behind, over, under, near and far.

8. Everyone’s body becomes the Rhizome that is able to connect freely and separate flexible.

9. Each part of the body remembers the double Resonance Qualia; memory, dream, imagination, illusion, the emotion of human relationship according to the special connection with the others.

10. Enjoy the free Life Resonance as the Nomad and Rhizome with taking off the daily human conditions and judgment.

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Medimotion

Medimotion that is a meditation while moving the body is the backbone of the subbody method.
Traditional meditation blocks the body in a specific pose and meditates while closings body and movement channel. It tends to be the meditation biased toward thinking channel.
On the contrary, we meditate while opening all channels including body and movement channel. The medimotion is the meditation that is to become Life.
To meditate means to listen to subtle Qualia in the darkness of the body. Qualia is everything that Life resonates. You can feel very subtle something which you can’t distinguish what it is; mixed with the memory, imagination, sensation, dream, illusion and so on. At the beginning of the listening, you will meet the non-dual Qualia beyond any channels.
When listening to each part of the body while moving the body, you can notice that various Qualia beyond the channel are resonating multi-dimensionally.
The Qualia of the physical movement which is going on now awakens the Qualia of the forgotten cell memory which is hidden in each part of the body, and it resonates doubly.

Focus on listening to this double resonance or multiple resonance of the various Qualia.
Stop thinking with moving faintly and become the subconscious mode body (subbody) that can listen to the multilayered resonance of Qualia flowing in the body. This is the purpose of the medimotion.
When you become the subbody mode, just follow the spontaneous movement by your whole mind-body without any judgment. The judgment belongs only to human society. In the Life realm, nobody can judge. Anything is OK, whatever your Life wants.

Enjoy your subbody creation, the creativity of Life is infinite. Continue with it every day.

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Report of the 20th year of Himalaya

Rhizome Lee

 

It came to Dharamsala at the foot of Himalaya Mountains in northern India and it has been 20 years this year.

Why did I come to the Himalayas?

It was because I could not listen to the darkness of the body in Japan. Too much information, the voice of Life was masked out, I could not hear it no matter how much I tried to hear it. I wanted to release my Life in a quiet environment and listen to what Life is seeking.

In 1998 I left from the residence of Kyoto that I lived so far, and I visited my friends of choreographers and dancers all over the world who met in a network of artists called Dancing Commune, which I had been making until then, I did three years world tour with performances and workshops. It took about 20 countries. I liked the town of Dharamsala that visited during the tour. It was because there was nothing but a mountain. I borrowed a land on the mountainside with a contract for 30 years and built a butoh school called a subbody resonance butoh school. It is thirteen years since I opened the school. Graduates exceeded 1,000 altogether.

Every morning, we begin to become a comfortable subconscious mode body (called a subbody) that can meditate while slowly moving the body, listening to the darkness of the body.

In classical meditation, the body is fixed to the Kakkafuza position and so on, but here we leave the body as it wants to move. When it comes to a sufficiently pleasant subconscious mode, unexpected movements that have been forgotten come out one after another from the body. That's the subbody.

Since the subbody is a Rhizome which connects freely and separates flexibly with other subbodies whenever and wherever.

It is the characteristic of the Resonance Butoh School that co-creates the dance through such resonance of Life.

The presence of fixed choreographers and directors is unnecessary. Such things are infinitely small compared to the infinite creativity of Life. In order to fully open the creativity of Life, it is important not to push the individual's power too much. Butoh is not originally an expression of ego or self. Swallowing such things instead of spitting, and glare the world by the Rock Cicada's eyes "("Sick Dancing Princess"), that is the Butoh that Hijikata quested.

Here, we thoroughly take off the human and the self. It is indispensable in order to create Life Resonance Butoh transmitted from the Life to the Life. Such a thing could not be noticed in mind and body covered by information floods in Japan and Western Europe.

Just listen to your Life every day and ask "What do you want to do the most?" Twenty years have passed. Finally, we stopped everyday thinking and found a Life Resonance method that keeps listening to our Life. It is an epoch-making technique that allows anyone in the world to live as an art creator with just one body. We would like to extend it all over the world. Fortunately, many young people have applied to enroll from all over India and the world.

But now we are faced with an unprecedented crisis. Many of them are young and poor, and they can not pay tuition. Until last year I have compensated for school deficits with savings I got when I was young. However, its personal funds also bottomed out this year. From here, in order to accept more young people and to take the first step, it is essential to establish a scholarship system with your support. Please support the Life Resonance Butoh.

For details, please wait for a while to visit the Life Resonance Art Fund site (under construction).

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<Cobody Dreaming Share>

  Finally we got how to share each one’s forgotten cobody Qualia after twenty years trial and error.
The missing key was hidden in the method of conditioning.

1. Conditioning for Cobody Dreaming Share

Resonate each other with various Hidden Skin distance
-Placenta layer: Between touching and not touching
-Womb layer: Become twin fetus in the Amniotic fluid
-Mother’s body layer: Relationship in the individual distance
-World layer: Resonance in the distance
-Physical contact: Contact with various pressures

2. Dreaming of cobody resonance

Remember the forgotten Qualia when we were one cobody; a swarm, flock, herd, school, crowd.
Imagine the most interesting cobody group movement with a Jo-Ha-Kyu.
Find the best place to share the cobody.

3. Cobody Dreaming Share

Guide others to your cobody Qualia by the movement and the words at the most interesting place.
The others follow it.

Finally we got how to share each one’s forgotten cobody Qualia after twenty years trial and error.
It was hidden as so rich and diverse forms in our darkness of body. It was just that we didn’t know how it is possible to activate it.
Only through one day experiment, we got so interesting cobody Qualia as the following;

1. Skin Eye Cobody: Lee
2. Strange Caterpillar: Adam
3. One Cell Organism: Lila
4. Jellyfish: Christian
5. Birds Song: Piu
6. Bee: Linda

Co-Researchers of the second semester 2018 are so luckey, because we can share so rich cobodies and able to use them in each one's creation of the 17th Butoh Festival.



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"Rhizome" An fateful encounter with a thought which decided my Life


It was

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I re-ordered the Kan Qualia that Hijikata collected for the first trial.
Kan is what your Life is not able to resonate well.

[1st stage: Kan walk]

1. Ash walk 　灰柱の歩行

Carry your Ash body that was burn out and became standing　ash pole as quiet as possible.

2. A bug walk on your right arm 虫が右腕を這う


3. A slime crawl up on your left inner thigh ナメクジが内腿を這い上がる

4. Breed a dust with eyelashes　 まつげで埃を飼育する
A dust stop on your eyeslash. Shake the dust as your baby and breed it.
5. Plants crawl the temple, Birds fly away from the temple　
こめかみを植物がはうこめかみから鳥が飛び立つ

6. You disappeared into the haze　もやの中へ消える

7. Whereabouts of the body is placed into body　ゆくえをからだの中に入れる
“Whereabouts” is a special term of Hijikata. It means the whole process that smoke or steam is going up and disappearing into the air. Place the whole process of the disappearing. Some parts of your body are vaporizing.Your body becomes the “Vaporized body”.

8.A strange person approaches you and pinches your skins and memories 　つまむ奇妙な人

9. Stain on the wall infinitely　どこまでも壁に染みる

Your body stains on the wall infinitely and you becomes a part of the wall.

10. Squeaky air きしむ空気

Imagine that your space is pressed strongly and the air makes the strange sound. Dance the response of your Life.
Remember the first desaster during your birth that the womb started shrinking suddenly.

11. Crack　ヒビが入る

12. Being gouged and melt  えぐられて溶ける

“Being gouged” means that the flesh is cut and made a hole by a sharp knife. And the part is melt down. Imagine it by your body, and dance it.
This Qualia is also most universal desonance Qualia between Life and the world. In spite of any hard experience, Life can overcome it in time.

12. Wire in the body　体の中の針金
Someoneinsert a wire between your fingers and tows, the wires bend, streach and twist and entangled.

13. A locomotive passes through the inside of the body　体の中を機関車が通過する

14. A snake crawl up the waterways from your intestines to your throuat slowly　内臓の水路を上に辿る

15. Rock cicada’s eye　岩の蝉の目玉

Cicada's eye is completely no movement as the rock.
Your eyes become the rock, and glare back the world.
We inhibit to express, but the body which accepted many disasters and deformed into an unique form. Glare back the world with showing the deformed part.
Invent your own "Rock Cicada's Eyes" as multi-resonance Life.
This is the symbol of the "Kan Flower".

16. Find the novel ending which you have never done

[2nd stage: Yor own Kan Flower]

Remember yor own Qualia that Life couldn't resonate well in your life, in your dreams, in your illusions, similar with Hijikata's Kan Qualia.
Arrange them and create your own Butoh Score of Flower of Kan.
You can use and arrange the following Qualia flexiblly.

1. Kan Qualia that is not able to resonante well

The itchむずがゆさ
Blurred flowers wander 　ぶれた花がさまよう
Blurred means to become unclear or less distinct.
Bugs crawl on your senile hand 手ぶれの腕に虫が這う
Multi-Layering of nerve mescaline　メスカリンの神経の重層
 When you put a mescaline injection on your finger, the finger starts a shivering or swaying with illusions. And not only a finger, but also the other parts is injected, many layers of shivering are overlapped. Dance this multi-layering illusions and shivering.

Trapped in the mesh of the moment　一瞬の網の目に捕捉
Rain to diarrhea　下痢に雨が降る
A doll smolders Busubusu　人形がぶすぶすと燻る

Consisting by margin　余白で成り立つ
Viewed by the bird's-eye　俯瞰される
Attacked by light　光に襲われる
Spider web of light　光の蜘蛛の巣
The ankle bitten by rabbit　兎に囓られる踝
The internal organs hanging out of the body　内臓が体の外にぶら下がる
　剥離
Breath is sucked up　吸い取られる呼吸

Transformed into the face of the grave keeper　墓守の顔に変貌
Draft that permeates the back teeth　奥歯に染みる隙間風
Open pelvic tail grows　しっぽが生えて開く骨盤
Old woman being kissed　接吻されている老婆
Surrounding exactly what ambiguous　曖昧なものを正確に包囲
Touch of a fingertip to trace the grain木目をたどる指先の感触　
Being confined to the crystal　水晶に閉じ込められる
Passing of the myriad gazes 　無数の視線の通過
Gaze to split the space　空間を裂く視線
Wander the inside of the ear　耳の内部をさまよう
Burnt feathers　焦げる羽
Locked in a small room in the chest　胸の小部屋に鍵がかかる
Pulling pus loose　膿をずるずると引っ張る
A fool being chased　追いかけられる馬鹿
Girl approaching from a distant forest　遠くの森から少女が近づく
Rising up with the darkness gradually　闇を携えせり上がる
Leaves fall in the cranium one by one　頭蓋の中に木の葉がはらはらと落ちる
Retracted scab　引きつったかさぶた
Retracted means to have been cramp and shrunk.
Each part becomes "Kan" flower.

Man of pock　あばたの男
Pock is pockmark of skin.

Firm with remaining blurred　ぶれたまま固まる
Child drooling　よだれを垂らす子供
internal organ dried up completely　カサカサに乾く内臓　
Person with a Gibbs　ギブスをはめた人
Goya face of pus　ゴヤの膿の顔
Face of the pomegranate teeth　ざくろ歯の顔
“Pomegranate tooth” is random teeth like the fruit of pomegranate.
Face of the dried flower　ドライフラワーの顔　
Face being put painted inside　内部に塗り込められる顔　
Face blurred forward　前方にぶれてゆく顔
Right eye and the left half of the face is melting　右目と左半分が溶けている顔
Dark sooty face　暗い煤けた顔
Face of the forest　森の顔
“Forest” is a special term that is a metaphor of deep secret and mystery of Hijikata. Imagine the native forest that no human has changed. It is multi-layered by diverse plants and creatures, and became a deep mystery no one knows.
Become a multi-layered face of diverse Qualia.

Origin of nail and teeth　爪と歯の起源
Small shrine of the eyes and mouth cavity　目と口の中のほこら
Absolute saveless face appears　真に救われない顔が出る
Raisin eyes of an old woman　老婆の干しぶどうの目
Man dividing meat　肉の区分けをする男 

Being itself becomes 'Kan'

'Kan' developed to the whole body. Being itself transforms 'Kan'.
The final condition of 'Kan'. Hijikata called it "Farman"

Framan bedridden for 25 years　25年間寝たきりのフラマン

Torn God　引き裂かれた神様　
Tear means to pull apart with force. Imagine that your soul has been torn.
No human condition has remained. In each house had like this "Torn God" before the WW2 in Japanese country villages. Because there were no hospitals and no mental hospitals.
Then Hijikata boy watched like this "Torn God" and "Farman".

Totally he called them "Sick Dancing Princess".
The name is beautiful but actually, like these.
In the childhood, pure Life Resonance happened between him and them, and he was merged into them.

Remember when you met disabled people at the first time

I was born after 3 years of the Second World War. In the town many disabled soldiers. And keloid people by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The half face was purple and meltdown.

At the first meeting immediately my Life became the same. Simultaneous Life Resonance happened.
After the second time, the Ego divided self and others. But before Ego built, the immediate Life Resonance happens. This is the miracle of Life Resonance.
Research the experience which you don't resonate well and dance it.
Hijikata collected many Qualia that the Qualia that Life could not resonate well have become the whole being is malformed as the following;
Stunted young grave keeper 　いじけた若い墓守
Hunchback　せむし
Sloppy girl　だらしない少女
Looming horse ぼおっとした馬　
Auschwitz　アウシュビッツ
Ghost playing the organ　オルガンを弾く幽霊
Girl of cataract 　ソコヒの少女
Stuffed Framan　フラマンの剥製
Framan is a near death person.
Imagine that it became a stuffed being, and dance it.

Ghost of Michaux's chicken ミショーの鶏の幽霊
Henri Michaux is a French poet and painter. He drew unique paintings like by the ink drops. Imagine that a ghost of chicken drawn by the ink drops.

Find out a shape of Ghost of Michaux's chicken, and dance it.

Collapse of the beggar　乞食の崩壊
Smoldering doll 'Busubusu'　人形がぶすぶすと燻る
Face of a bear on the back of the mask　仮面の裏の熊の顔
Pigeon-toed gecko　内股のヤモリ
Stuffed spider's web 　剥製化した蜘蛛の巣
Generation and dismantling of doll by soil　土塊の人形の生成と解体　
People who are made ​​of dust　埃でできている人
Who have been put paint on the wall　壁に塗り込められた人

A ghost with having by its mouth a child's face  子供の顔をくわえた幽霊

Cow of density  密度の牛
A dangerous person who is likely to collapse  崩れてしまいそうな危うい人

Pope who has the steam of pus  湯気の膿の衣を引っさげた法王

A dark bottle trying to stand desperately  暗い瓶が危うく立つ

Auschwitz overlaps insects dancing on paper  紙の上で踊る虫にアウシュビッツが重層する

A girl wrapped in the dark behind  背後の闇に包まれている少女

These are extraordinary bitter waters that will catalyze to let the subbody=cobodies Butoh of Life from the darkness of the body.
Over the years it will take time to figure out how to dance these Qualia that Life can not resonate well.
Until the day that your <Qualia of Kan> will spring out from your body.
Until the day when people around the world start dancing of each Kan Qualia that they can not resonate well in every place on the planet!

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Butoh transmitted from Life to Life

 
What is "Butoh called by the name of Life" that Tsutsumi Hijikata left behind like a will?
I've been exploring it for over 20 years as my life work.
This year, I fought and struggled to overturn the subbody method because it was still bound by the dualistic constraints so far.
At last, something like a subtle light came into sight.
Butoh of Life is nothing but butoh that is directly transmitted from the Life to the Life.
And for that, dancer should take off "Belief as the human" and try to become Life.
There is nothing other than to dance the inevitable things.
If we can dance the most important thing for Life, at that time the Butoh that is transmitted directly from Life to Life would emerge.
What do we need to meet for it?

1. Listen to the Life at each moment every day,
and ask to your Life.
"What do you want to do the most?"

I have kept asking the question everyday for the last twenty years.
This is the basic in the basic task for becoming the Life.
Without this, nothing happens.

Just keep listening to Life.
I do not know what is Life.
It is one of the biggest mysteries I've met.
Because Life is a huge complex mystery and secret.
Thinking ordinary, Life has three phases.

(1) Life of an individual

If I die, it's just the end of everything. I was caught by that in the past.
However, we can not catch the Life only by it.

(2) Life of cell

Our body consists of 100 trillion cells. Every single cell has Life. And each cell has been living for 4 billion years. Each one has Life memories of 4 billion years. Our beings are the resonance body of 100 trillion cell's Life.

(3) Life as a Life Tide

Not only our human cells but also all living cells contnued to live for 4 billion years. From the origin cell that was born 4 billion years ago to today, with differentiated into various species and changing shapes. It is a single huge Life that has to be called a big Life Tide. Life is ONE.

Life needs to be regarded as integrating all three phases.
Listen to the Life and keep listening.

2. Remember the Qualia that your Life could not resonate well.

Remember the Qualia that you could not resonate well in your life.
Most are dissociated and can not be remembered.
Among the things that you can not remember, there is the most important thing to dance lurks.
They may be lurking in forgotten dreams, imagination and delusions.
Remember them desperately.
And continue to dance it.

I have been focusing on it since this spring at the subbody Resonance Butoh.
However, it is not easy to encounter those Qualia that have been dissociated by Ego and Self-organization.
We still need to continue more.
This year it would be the first year of the attempt.

3. Why the Qualia that can not resonate well is important?

Because the secret of the birth of each subbody = cobody is hidden in that Qualia. Everyone is born and grows up as a "human", everything that can not fit into that Self-organization successfully is dissociated from self and submerged in the bottom of the darkness of the subconscious body.
If we explore the Qualia that could not resonate well with this world, we can inevitably encounter the secret of occurrence of subbody = cobody, and the secret of how consciousness, subconscious and unconsciousness had to be separated.

It is a treasure house where the mystery and secret of Ego, Self, Subbody=cobody and Life lurk.
The secret of why we must live by being captured by unknown something is hidden.
If we do not solve the mystery, we can not be freed from the prisoners of the Ego and Self.
Just dancing it and continuing to transform it into unique creation is the way to the release.
It is a narrow and steep road, but this road is worthy to try.

The Butoh of Life is to connect your Life trying to follow its path at the risk of Life, with other Life through Life resonance.

This year's Butoh festival's last performance "Malformed Fever " will be a monumental piece to tackle it for the first time.
How much can we deepen it? No one knows.
Just the Resonance of Life will decide it.
Anyway, it's the way we finally got after the struggles of the decades.
Let's walk slowly.

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How to Liberate from the biggest Archetype, Ego

In order to fully demonstrate the creativity of life, it is necessary to get out of the ego, superego, and Archetype.

The fact that modern people cannot exercise the creativity of life is,
It is because he/she is forced to have an ego and he does not know how to stop his ego.

Nothing becomes obstacles to creation as much as ego and superego.Because they are captured in dualistic judgment.

In order to quench ego and superego, first of all, we have to know exactly what they will show up.

People are unconsciously captured by ego and superego in daily life,

it is because we can not control it without knowing the other party.

Let 's describe the outline of how the ego and superego emerge.  

The ego's appearance

The ego generally appears in the following form.If you notice it, immediately say hello and break apart.  

1.    Private Territory Owner

Ego is always territorializing like "This is my area". It is driven by the urge to secure his own safety zone. The ego is captured by anxiety. Found a quiet environment that you can become alone.
"You do not have to worry. Because no one here will try to infringe you, here."First of all, you can find an environment that makes your ego relieved and calm. It is important first.

The ego is stuck with the urge of private ownership "This is mine". These tendencies that we were born and raised in a capitalistic society of private property system. However, that is not the only way human beings are. I leave the attachment of my ego and descend to the land of Life.

There is no boundary between self and others, and every life is just resonating in the world. I will let the ego know that there is such a different world. 

2. Self-justificator

Ego always keeps on justifying himself. I can not live with confidence without awareness that "I am not wrong".

There is nobody in the world of Life, such as making a dualistic judgment of right and wrong, such as right and wrong. I do not have to keep busy, self-justification etc. Because I am convinced that it is a human being, I am driven to such work.

3. Story maker

For that reason, the ego always keeps making his own story. As long as you believe in your own story, you can always be in your own right. Even if that is just my own excuse, the ego does not notice such a thing. Because I can not support myself as soon as I noticed it.
You never do such a stupid thing.

4. Pretender to be a good person

I am dressing my ego all the time. I am busy showing myself well.For that, we must first believe in stories we make up first.The ego knows somewhere a lie always cold wind is blowing. Just do not desperately look for it. I am convinced that I am myself as being a "nice person."

5. Ironic critique

When the ego sees a person, he always looks down. I am watching whether the fantasy of the ego stories that others believe has not come off. Only a careful look that does not overlook the collapse of others' story. It will save my own story of the story from collapse.

6. Emotional

Ego is always regulated unconsciously by the condition of the body and emotions rising from it. However, I do not notice it on my own. Ego's actions are all inspired by this unconscious emotion. Since that urge brings only a faint signal. It is hard to notice with everyday consciousness. It is not until you stop your ego consciousness.
The unconscious connection between the ego and the body and emotion appears transparent. 

How the super-ego appears

Ego is still cute. Compared to the unrelenting denial of the superego.

Superego is a type of <original type> living in the collective unconscious of deep layers. Its power to control is powerful, and it can not be ruled out if it is captured. 

7. Public prosecutor

A judge like a prosecutor or a judge is the biggest feature of the superego. Wielding around the dualistic judgment of a narrow "good/bad" I try to decide my own black and white. Then deny and truncate without mercy. There is no bad existence of prosecutors who believe that they always belong to justice. However, prosecutors and judges are alive among anyone. Every time it comes out, keep on quitting. Perhaps super-ego is a type of former type to be described later, I am trapped by it before I notice it.

In learning how to go out with <Archetype> living in the deepest layer of unconsciousness. I gradually calm down the captivity by the superego.

8. Self-critic

There is superego which only ironic and cynical criticism is done. Always stick to new attempts at negative criticism. I try to ruin everything. It is a timid, most conservative denier to the new transformation.

9. Justice guy

The end of the prosecutor and judge is righteous Han. Believe that I am right and swing. There used to be many men in old days, but now it got less. On the contrary, I often came across the case that I possessed in women's animus. This righteous man is alive in everyone.I have also fought with a guy who faces Justice in my life for life, but I cannot stop my breath. Especially I am not aware that I am infiltrated by Animus. Feminism women are eaten by eating this super-ego called Justice Han. It is pleasant to sexuality to associate with Animus of justice. Once you get killed you will not be able to escape, it is the same as when men are captured by anima.

But because it is unconscious, every feminist woman, Anima's captive man can not notice it. It is still the biggest obstacle for me.

Other Archetypes

Many Archetypes live in the darkness of the body besides ego and superego.

10. Shadow, Not me, Dissociated personality

All Hidden bodies are the archetypes, too. As same as the surface identity or character of Ego is Archetype.

Freud called it “Inferior personality”,  Jung called it “shadow”, Sullivan named it “not-me”, and so on.

All of those are also Archetypes, many shadows are hidden in our darkness of body. We need to dance it to release them.

11. Anima, Animus

Probably one of the most powerful Archetype. Anima is a secret feminine aspect of men.

Animus is the opposite, it is a secret male side in women.

However, since they lurk unconsciously, we usually do not notice them.And the man projects the feminine Qualia inside himself to a certain external woman or feminine image.

It is love. Love is unconsciously invaded by the Anima, Animus inevitably.

If I tell it in more detail, In a love affair, so multiple Qualia are entangled around the sexuality; biological sexual hormone states,  emotional influence of the Archetype of Anima, Animus, Girl, Boy, Queen, King, Princess, Prince, Great Mother, forgotten memories of relationship with Mother, Father, Grandparents, infantile girl or boyfriend, momentum flashback Qualia of them, social moral of sexuality, and so on.

It cannot be said easily. However, if you always look at the fact that you always fall in love with a particular biased woman or man, you can see the fact that Anima, Animus is involved in it.

Liberation from captivity to Anima is an unknown task in my middle of the quest. Since working on decades, just a little bit has become transparent, though it is still on the middle way. My final creation will be about Anima. Prisoners for women of Animus are also deep misery.

I can only say so now, to be honest. We may need a partner to liberate from them together.

Unless we solve this problem, it is clear that only the fact that friendship between men and women cannot be realized.

13. Great Mother

The Great Mother is the oldest Archetype and is also involved in Anima. Sometimes it appears like a superego. Great mother loves everything and eats everything. There is no distinction between love and desire to own possession.

Non-dual Resonance

Archetypes are all in the Qualia cloud that is not able to distinguish clearly. There is no clear distinction between them. Those Qualia are resonating in non-dual and multi-dimensional with changing shapes infinitely.
Sometimes other Archetypes resonate with those and become so complicated entanglement.
Old wise men, heavenly woman, boy, animal, trickster, mad, guru, god, devil etc. There is the millions number of Archetypes that are unlimited.

Every day it's going to come up with them and we are in the middle of exploring how to handle it, I still have no power to tell them all.

Here I focused only on Ego, Superego and Anima, Animus. 

Denial tendency of Ego and Superego

This super complex group of problems only has to deal with deepening multidimensional resonance theory.
Features of ego and superego are in denial. It is bound by the tendency to deny others.

The superego denies yourself from above with overtaken power.
The ego denies in a horizontal confrontation with others.
There is only a difference in position and case.

The superego always appears together with the common illusion such as justice, morality, ethics, true and good.

The whole image of the identity is in a deeper mystery than the Archetype because it is mixed with multiple elements of the sexuality, nationality, moral, education, religion, law, thoughts, and so on.

Superego is the biggest enemy of creation more than self or ego.

To calm down and stop superego and ego is necessary inner work for everybody in order to realize the better future that is able to open the infinite creativity of Life. 

How to stop ego and superego

 24 hours Listening to subtle Qualia

In a quiet state where you can notice the appearance of ego and superego, it is important to spend every day at that condition, because the appearance of it is so subtle.
As long as you talk with people using words, self and superego are activated unconsciously. And in the conscious mode, we cannot listen to it.
It is important to stop talking with words externally and internally.Maintain a transparent state of mind and body that you can notice the subtle Qualia constantly.
Then you can notice at the moment when ego or superego comes up.
At that moment, you can give a greeting to ego and superego.

“Hello! My ego, and superego. How are you?

I know you well, you are necessary to survive in this capitalist society. But, not now. Now I am in the creation mode. See you later!"

Never deny the ego or superego directly, because it activates them as counterproductively.

Ego and superego want to receive an optimum respect. We need sensitive attention about it.

Nobody can live in today's daily world without ego and superego.

And as long as humans are captured by ego and superego, the man keeps supporting the common illusion of Nation-state and power.

And the creativity of Life continues to be alienated from people.

For the real liberation of human beings, the disappearance of Ego, Superego, Archetypes and the Nation-state are necessary at the same time. The liberation from the common illusion of the Nation-state and politics are connected. I was working on those issues over many decades.

Beyond the huge difference between Ego and Life

Life is non-dual and multi-dimensional resonance itself.
Qualia are Life Resonance.
It has no dualistic boundary. All Qualia are resonating beyond any boundaries.
It is Rhizome that has no center, no top, no hierarchy at all.
Rhizome is able to connect freely and separate flexibly at any moment at any place.

On the contrary, ego, superego, and consciousness live in the dualistic world. It is Tree system that has hierarchic order.
There is a huge gap between Tree and Rhizome.

We need to cultivate a novel type of intelligence that is able to go and come between both realms of Tree and Rhizome.

It will be called "Transparencious" (shortening of Transparent consciousness) that is not being bound by anything, including Tree and Rhizome as the future mind.

Untill it does not matter whether it's me or not-me.


Finally we could find the way to release from the trap of ego and self.
We are bound by the trap of ego which is the strongest archetype during the growing process of self dynamism.
It is so hard to aware of it, because most of us are trapped by the ego archetype unconsciously.
Our parents, teachers, friends and all citizons are trapped by it unconsciously, and the children are imprinted the ego naturally, too.
Hijikata wrote a lot of experiences to be eaten by the world in various ways in the “Sick Dancing Princess”.
“A body that continued to be eaten by the world, till lost the outline.”
Also in the “Bugs walk”,
“Bugs eat your body voraciously and eat the outer space.”

Support the world, in the struggle between you and the world


Frantz Kafka said,
“Usually, I solve the problems by letting them devour me.”
“Support the world, in the struggle between you and the world.”

We found a novel subbody=cobody method to dance with becoming the world.
1. Research the strangest Qualia of the world transformation and ooze you, invade you, devour you.
2. Find a best place where you are attacked by the world Qualia. And co-create the world cobody with unique Jo-Ha-Kyu development, in the building or nature.
3. Invite a friend to the place, and approach him or her as the world cobody with Unique Jo-Ha-Kyu.
Through this method we can become the world which seems to attack you.
It is the way to support the world in the struggle between you and the world as Kafka and Hijikata said.

This is the process to become another being to cast off the previous you.
We can become transparent Rhizome or Shisha that is able to transform to anything infinitely.

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Co-creation of "Stuffed Spring" by Reduction by X

We can co-create various strange worlds as the Stuffed Spring that Hijikata called in the Quiet House by using his transforming mewthod; "Reduction by X and regeneration".

When all of us reduce the gross movement, it bcomes the "Stuffed Spring".
If we reduce the speed, it becomes very slow motion world.
We can reduce any elements from the daily human movement, and co-create varieties of Butoh world; slow rollong stone, ancestral whisper, silent shout, and so on.

Yesterday, students reduce various elements and co-created varieties of the "Stuffed Spring".
This month, we will focu on this>
How much strange novel worlds can we co-create with?
It is fun. 

Tree-Rhizome method

There are infinite patterns to shift from Tree to Rhizome , and Rhizome to Tree.
We investigate in the infinite possibility of it this week.
It is the first experiment to research it in the Subbody history.

We are not caught in the Tree, and not stuck with Rhizome.
It is not able to become free truly, until we can come and go freely among the both worlds of Tree and Rhizome.
Now that scientists all over the world are captivated by a dualistic Tree logic, only we are doing this adventure in the world beyond the Tree and Rhizome.

We become subconscious mode and remeber the forgotten memories of the transformation among Tree and Rhizome.

We research with subbody and cobody in the interesting transformation among Rhizome and Tree and share it each other.

We can research it in the Solo, Duet, Trio and various numbers of cobody.

<Tree-Rhizome in the Solo>

Transform from chaotic movement as slime mold, smoke bug, and so on to an appearance of Tree shape, for example a solid shape or mechanical movement as Tree like a Kugutsu body and so on.

<Tree-Rhizome in the duet>

Find a surprising moment to change from chaotic pair movement like as rhizoming duo or contact and air contact improvisation to a unizon.
And break the unizon as Tree to Rhizome resonance duet.

<Tree-Rhizome in the subbody=cobody>

Shift from a chaotic cobody movement to a special Tree resonance pattern of cobody as line, Squer, circle, box, tower and so on, and break it to another Rhizoming cobody.

In both thought and movement, we are going to acquire techniques to switch freely between the Tree and Rhizome.

For more than 10 years ago, I have wanted to realize this technique, but was unable to succeed until now.
But, finally it is going to be able to experiment and share with everyone.
So, this <Tree-Rhizome technique> became possible for the first time in the world.



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