Single Cell No.1

In The Kybalion, the Principle of Mentalism teaches that everything: every star, atom, emotion, event, and being is the product of a Universal Mind. “The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.” Reality is not physical first, it is mental. The universe is like a thought in the mind of The All, the unnamable, unknowable, infinite intelligence behind all creation. What some call God, Source, Spirit, or the Infinite.

Just as you can imagine a world in your mind, The All imagined this world into being. It is not a person or a deity with human traits rather it is the source of all minds, matter, and energy. And if the universe is mental, and we are part of the universe, then our minds are made of the same “substance” as The All’s.

This is where it gets exciting! We are not separate from creation; we are co-creators. You dear reader, have the power to shape your reality because reality itself is mental in nature. Thoughts influence matter. Beliefs become experienced. What you hold in mind begins to take form. This principle is the metaphysical foundation of manifestation, affirmations, visualization, reality shifting. Even quantum physics (as some modern thinkers believe.) You are both the dreamer and the dreamed.

SINGLE CELL No. 1 is our ode to that dream of The All.
A celebration of the very first single cell. The prokaryotic microorganisms, those simple ancient beings without a nucleus from which all life emerged. This print honors the anaerobic bacteria that did not need oxygen to survive and the cyanobacteria and early plankton, the first photosynthesizers who helped shape Earth’s atmosphere and laid the groundwork for oxygen itself.

It is a bow to the first particles of life who due to the improbable precision of temperature, gases, and elemental balance that made life possible, began their long journey. This is an ode to the brilliant manifestation of the creation of all life and to the billions of creatures who did not make it past the 5 mass extinctions, and to those who did.

We have created our version of this celebration, as we humans continue to slowly evolve. It is a combination of the immortal jellyfish with a human brain and spine. Something I saw floating around my mind during my first 5-Meo experience. *Note from author: as in ALL mind-altering experiences proper shamanic care must be involved as well as integration and post therapy. This is extremely important and needs to be more wildly talked about in these communities as I tip-toed the line of sanity for not having a proper integration back into my old reality.

The immortal jellyfish has a rare biological ability: when it’s injured, sick, or old, it doesn’t just die. It reverts its cells back to a younger state, turning itself into a baby polyp, a bit like a butterfly turning back into a caterpillar. Then it begins its life cycle again. It can do this over and overusing the process called transdifferentiating, where one type of cell transforms into another. A muscle cell could turn into a nerve cell, etc. etc… In essence, Instead of aging, it resets. Instead of dying, it transforms. It doesn't avoid death, it loops time.

This print is us kissing the ground and saying thank you, to whatever being decided to dream us up, and celebrating all the ways all of us humans have dreamed up that being. As we are on the brink of creating the 6th mass extinction from our ignorance of unbridled growth - this is a plea to that being that we - as the only creatures that we know of who understand that we are responsible for heading into a 6th extinction, that we could use our minds and our spines to reverse our impact into a more positive one - as a collective brilliance, moving into a direction of sustainability and transparency, and respect for all creatures including ourselves. May we use our minds not to destroy, but to restore. May we dream better.

With love and gratitude,

The OG Thèria Family