Ideas, beliefs, moods, ways of seeing — they behave like living things. They find hosts. They compete for room. They borrow our voices and our attention to make more of themselves.
Some of them help us breathe. Some quietly close us in. By the time we notice the shape of one, we are usually already inside it, already speaking from inside it, already passing it on.
This is a way of looking. Six instruments for noticing — and a way to hand what you find to the elements, who will think it through together and write something back.
It is not a belief system. It is not a path. The map knows it is a map.