Anapalmós

Anapalmós (Greek αναπαλμός) is a literary word denoting pulse, oscillation or upheaving agitation, describing, in a kind of an Aristotelian manner, the etherical state of vibration. The word can also signify the perpetual movement of the sea’s deepest currents, or the radiating light of the distant stars, arriving on earth in oscillation. This is the same energy that creates life out of the smallest seed oscillating in the ground so that it turns into a plant, or a tree extending its branches and leaves towards the sun. It is the same energy triggered by the union of the male and the female to form the first cells of human life: the energy of the oscillation, the perpetual palpitation always precedes the process of materialisation. Anapalmós entails the discretion, the mystery and the retreat that lies within. Its derivative word, anápalsis (Gr. ανάπαλσις), denoting the movement of the waves, is probably the root of the Latin word pulsus (pulse).