Body Flowers by Body Plant Cosmos / White Square

Death is the ultimate trip and only the beginning.

In ancient sacred Buddist texts, like the ''Bardo Thodol,'' rituals regarding body and mind are written down, foreign to many Western civilizations. Your body is a vessel, of many, for the long journey of your soul. And our souls are more connected to nature in ways that most will never understand. Humans have grown and evolved from mycelium, and it's rooted in our complex system of nerves, tissues, veins, and so forth. And as we have grown from the earth, so we will feed it with our vessel when our cyclic existence is a reality upon greeting death welcome as a being of beauty.

A DMT-like substance is released in our brains when we die. Hence, death too many are their first psychedelic trip. The realm of our senses expands beyond dimensions of what we've been able to comprehend in our lifetime. The universe is ever pulsating, ever being, and ever-evolving. Our fragile ego-driven minds are not ready for what lies beyond the doors of death; that is why we keep repeating the same mistakes. A being of pristine cognition will break out of the cycle and accept the ritual deception of death.

''Body Flowers'' is the story of one of these death rituals. And the story of how our bodies will nourish the earth or the scavengers. Above-ground burial sites, known as Charnel Ground, are common in the Buddhist religion. In the sky burials, or Jhator, in the Himalayan mountains, the dead bodies are laid out, often cut, for consumption by carrion fowl or the elements - To nature or wildlife. Flesh for the fowl - Fruit for the creation. There is no need for body preservation in the Vajrayana Buddist part of the world as the body is now an empty vessel. This practice is excarnation, which refers to removing the flesh and organs of the dead before burial. This is the story of that process and the soul's journey, mind, and body when faced with this ritual.

''Body Flowers'' is a collaborative effort between Body Plant Cosmos and White Square. Body Plant Cosmos is Patrick Bjørsrud. White Square is Marko Šiljeg.

Wall by: White Square
Other instrumentation: Body Plant Cosmos
Cover painted by: Patrick Bjørsrud


RELEVANT LINKS:

bodyplantcosmos.bandcamp.com

notevenart.bandcamp.com

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