Mêtis is the particular quality of intense alertness that can be effortlessly aware of everything at once. While our wandering minds go off on their endless journeys, it always stays at home. And its home is everywhere. Mêtis feels, listens, watches; can even be aware at the same time... of every thought drifting into and out of our consciousness. It misses nothing..
- **** wisdom, discernment
- it's a Greek word with connotations of navigating stormy seas, tactical cunning, decption and avoiding deception, tricker energy; Odysseus was the exemplar of Metis in Homer's work
- metis implies a really strong sense of present-moment awareness, used to navigate spaces we usually use concepts to navigate, but in a more direct, intuitive way