Observations of Form, generally speaking, tend to lean upon three notions: the notion of cause and effect, hence, forms enfold a definite origin. The notion of stable identity or continuity, hence, forms unfold a set of prime features (essence, ideas, soul), which maintain their identity through processes and are immune to them. The notion of a quantified shape, hence, forms are intrinsically measurable.
The act of disconnecting form from a linear origin and from a definite identity allows form and reality to co-relate in an unmediated and non-reductionist fashion. This brings to mind the axial phrase of Buddhist philosophy – “form is emptiness; emptiness is form” (The Heart Sutra). Where Emptiness points to a set of fundamental views about reality: the notion of non-inherent existence, the notion of inter-dependence and the notion of being in a flux).
That which is exposed is a view of ‘Matter’, which is Generative. Such view is radically different from the scarce materiality funded by a duality of mind and body, or else, by the opposition of materialism and spirituality. It rather stands as a vision of reality in terms of embodied corporality, soft and active matter that is rumbling in all directions. Fertility is not about ‘spirit’, nor about matter, fertility belongs to intensities in process (relieved from the burden of crystallized measurability).
All is Matter; not in the sense of homogeneity or oneness, but in the sense of the corporality of space and time; of embodied gradients in interaction that partake in engendering the fabric of reality.
It is distinct materiality and gradients that we encounter in the multi-dimensional phase-space that we name universe; substances as bodies, minds and meanings; me and the word ‘me’, nothing is disconnected from matter, nothing can be deemed immaterial. Nothing need be. Immateriality is not, in this sense, our privileged way out of a blind physical world; it is the realization of the limitations of reductionist descriptions, which we need in order to build a valid alternative.