PRIMORDIA Online Course

Prue Jeffries provdies a brief introduction to the NAIO™ Primordia Module. 

The origins of life on earth, and so ourselves, is the study of mysterious life giving prowess. Much of the synchronous portion of this module will be exploring water, waves forms, and how it moves and creates. 

Our bodies are anywhere between 60-80% water, and so the movements of water we study in nature, are occuring in someway within our bodies also, from a micro to macro levels. 

These several videos provided are of the movements of water on a deserted Australian beach. Whilst you cannot be with me in-person for the experience - I am trusting the video will also convey water’s teaching to you about the ways of the primordial realm - how it creates and communicates - using the polyrythmicity of wave, vibration, pulsation and undulation. 

Download and print the PDF from lesson materials for instructions.

Here are some extra videos of the movements within Water to study. Explore and replay as you like. Journal or draw if anything arrives in you, or that you notice.

This lesson is an overview of how Water is sacred across humanties diverse cultures - from cosmogenic and cosmological themes to the practical ways it sustains life and communities.  

This video explains how many different tides are created and illustrates how they occur in all bodies of water. Another way to understand waves, energy, gravity and matter from the level of space, earth and nature. 

This Wave Happens Once in 10,000 Years, Scientists Have Finally Captured It

This video discusses different forms of waves in the ocean that are not often discussed. It illustrates the different forces that create them and provides some insight into just how many variatons of waves are happening at all times. 

This lesson includes videos showing examples of Tidal Bore Phenomena. In particular the Qiantang River Tidal Bore to study and explore the many creative ways of water.

There is also an article discussing these wave phenomena for life in general, and using tidal bores and internal waves (explored in a lesson ahead) to illustrate waves roles in generating and sustaining ecosystems. 

A quick explanation of Internal Waves

A Wave Form Study of Murmurations by Birds in Flight 

This lesson continues with studying wave-form phenomena, this time, similar to murmurations - schooling in fish can also be studied. There are two videos to watch. 

There has also been some updated ideas around these phenomena with two articles outline how murmurations and schooling illustrates wave form, vibration, field dynamics, and chaos (sensitive chaos and disorder-to order) and sensation. All concepts we will continue to explore in different contexts ongoing in NAIO.

In this short video: The 5 core principles of life | Nobel Prize-winner Paul Nurse the main themes in Biology today are outlined, that reveal the primoridal underpinnings of life.

This lesson looks at what cells actually do look like and how they move using microscopy with the video "Your Textbooks Are Wrong, This Is What Cells Actually Look Like"

This lesson looks at the soup of life - the inside of cells (the video looks at various different forms of cells) and also explores a type of cell known as cilia. 

Cytoplasmic Streaming is another way cells create, move and nourish themselves and their environments. 

In this lesson we start to look at embryological development and introduce the idea of morphogenesis.