I: Genesis

The drop first had to be born, yet this birth needed to be a part of a vast cycle—it had to be continuously born. For a moving raindrop, this is entirely natural. The psychoanalytic idea of rebirth, in which the human being comes into existence anew as someone different with each transformation, along with other ideas—such as Plato’s Timaeus and the concept of Khôra, through which the universe exists in a state of continual becoming, much like quantum fields—all support this notion of perpetual birth. The text and images used in this chapter is cut from "Clouds, Rain and Snow" by Bertha Morris Parker.