Choosing Life

1. Bios (βίος) — Biological life

Bios is form in the making. It is nothing else, but this process is its own. Constantly mutating, under the guidance of instantaneous cosmic in-formation, a pure potential appears — stretching on both sides of terrestrial birth.

This gestating form belongs to time, to evolution, to fragility. It is shaped far more by cosmic energies than by its parents. The womb becomes a universal matrix, focusing the vital impulse at a precise point to generate a new form: the fetus. When this form deploys in the tangible world, it is torn from the matrix in an experience of death-birth. At this Bios stage, Life is a pulsing form, an immense potential:

Bios is therefore incomplete — a technological vessel for another living body to come: the learning body, Zao.

2. Zao (ζάω) — Animated life

Zao is the act of embracing life, finally breathing for oneself to cross the world with unparalleled curiosity. When this curiosity is doubled with an astonishing capacity to learn, Life transforms the Bios form into the Zao body.
Zao introduces the uncertainty of movement — a momentum toward the unknown. It recognizes life as the receptacle of the never-before-seen, as something that manifests itself. Zao is not yet felt in conscious flesh — still a body in becoming, in learning, in search of connection.
The young Zao body, docile and permeable, undergoes crises, fevers, inflammatory surges. It absorbs the outside like a sponge. It regularly becomes saturated, yet instantly forgets those painful moments. Later expressions of life will not retain their details. This is because Zao has no self-awareness yet. It will come with an inaugural memory — a memory that could not have come from anyone else.

That day, Zao becomes conscious flesh: Psyché.

3. Psyché (ψυχή) — Inner life

The flesh of Psyché is sensitive, thinking, meditative life. It is the inner world, emerging consciousness, the mirror that reflects, the trouble that settles instead of vanishing. Psyché awakens when the child says “I” for the first time.
Psyché invents an inner world, creates a polarity between inner and outer, and becomes a permanent traveler between two worlds. This stage fascinated an entire century in search of original traumas. Yet beyond doubt and wounds, Psyché’s flesh connects the world to its own self — and intuits that this “self” is only one among others.

When this consciousness stabilizes, it becomes a different kind of traveler — one between forms. It becomes Zoé.

4. Zoé (ζωή) — Essential life

Zoé is timeless life — being beyond form/body/flesh/self. It is neither measurable nor tied to identity. It is pure consciousness — the very energy that animates all living things, be they galaxies or atoms.

For a shaman, Zoé is the breath shared by galaxies and stones alike. It does not die. It mutates. It traverses. The self of Psyché has become one among countless selves — part of the Self. At this point, we realize that everything informed becomes form, becomes body, becomes flesh, becomes self — and together we create a multiverse in which each form/body/flesh/self stands at the center of its own world.

At that moment, the self of Psyché’s flesh can freely travel through all its manifestations — and become, at will, a tree, a speck of dust, or a galaxy. It becomes the traveler Zoé.

And when Zoé in turn ceases to move from one form to another, it discovers creativity. It plunges into a world where form is language, and letters reveal themselves as creative forces. Naturally, it chooses letters as raw material and becomes poet.

Then arises the dimension of Poïèsis..

Poïèsis (ποίησις) — Creative life

Poïèsis is the act of creation, the eruption of meaning, the birth of song. It does not add to the world — it renders the world into poetry. In Poïèsis, speech stops informing: it becomes music. A melody whose beauty reveals what is evident.

It is no longer a tool, but infinite clay. Creating is no longer producing, but engendering. And behind every word, every creative gesture, Poïèsis senses an invisible link. That link is Agapè.

But again, the poet grows exponentially, reaches a culminating point, and discovers that the bond between poet and poems has always been one of unconditional love — Agapè.

Agapè (ἀγάπη) — Life as connection

Agapè is love without demand. It binds without possessing, unites without dependence. It is the gaze that waits for nothing, that sees and accepts. It weaves together what the world keeps apart, without confusing them. It holds the universe between its two hands.

Agapè ties together forms and words. It is the quiet thread between two beings who, without observing each other, follow a golden line together.

As this wisdom grows, it opens the way to a knowledge that cannot be taught: Gnosis.

Gnosis (γνώσις) — Life in knowing

Gnosis is the recognition of all that is. It does not pass through logic, but through evidence. It is an inner resonance. What once seemed fragmented becomes One. Forms and links now appear as expressions of a deeper knowledge.

Gnosis sees beyond form, word, and bond — and integrates all prior levels like a pyramid grounded in its base. It perceives that everything is already there.

And for the spirit, one final threshold remains to be crossed:

It must unite what is with what is not — creating the emptiness of all knowledge: Kénôsis.

Kénôsis (κένωσις) — Life emptied of self

Kénôsis is the ultimate threshold. Stripping. Surrender. Radical availability. Pure listening without center, without goal. A vibrant emptiness in which even knowledge dissolves to let the Essence breathe.

In this void, the self, the “I”, fades. Life becomes evanescence. And perhaps, at this threshold, another door opens — still veiled: the ninth name.

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