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LACE WEB & LACEWEB
Mutual Help Healing
Action A family and community
healing movement spreading from Australasia through the East Asia Oceania
Region evolving and enriching all aspects of wellbeing
Written
1993. Last updated: April 2014. Laceweb
remains a new form of social movement evolving in the Australasia Oceania SE
Asia Region since the 1950s. This
new form of social movement is an informal Laceweb of healers from among the
most downtrodden and most disadvantaged marginal people of the world. The
name ‘Laceweb’ emerges from a natural outback Australian phenomenon. One may
go to sleep in a tent on the side of the road in the dry desert regions of
Western Queensland. Waking in the morning and looking out of the tent one may
see the low gorse bush (about fifty centimetres high) appearing to be covered
by snow as far as the eye can see. What has happened is that during the
night, millions of tiny spiders have floated in on thin webs, drifting in the
slightly moving air. The continuous, immense web the spiders have spun
overnight stretches to the horizon in all directions. It has a very Yin, very
feminine energy reminiscent of lace, and hence ‘Laceweb’. Here is one
expressing of the Laceweb energy: ‘The
Laceweb evidences the manifesting of a massive local co-operative endeavour.
Not carved in stone, rather – soft, light, and pliably
fitting the locale and made by locals to suit their needs. Like the spider
web, the Laceweb appears out of nowhere. When you discover it, it would have
already surrounded you. Exquisitely beautiful and lovely. When you have eyes
that see it, the play of reflectent light upon it in the morning sunlight is
extra-ordinary. It attracts and stores the dew in little beads. Like the
desert web, the Laceweb extends way beyond the horizon. Suspended in space
with links to shifting things - no solid foundations here. Embracing no
centre and no part ‘in charge’ though having charge; and in this sense, no
aspect higher or lower than any other. Not what it first seems. At the same
time riddled with holes, whole and holy. Merging within the surrounding
ecosystem and laying low. In one sense delicate - in another resilient. Bits
easily damaged. However, to remove it all would be well nigh impossible.
Formed through covalent bonding between its formers and within its form.
(Covalent – from the Latin imperative Latin ‘valentia’ – to be well, to be
strong. ‘Co-valence’ is to be strongly bonded together in mutual attraction.)
An attractant. Local action may repair local damage. Very functional. What
the locals need. And helping to sustain them. That desert web – perhaps a
perfect metaphor for this Laceweb movement. Other Links: Community Ways for
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