Prana / Bodydraftschool: vastu· Svoboda — Vāstu
Supplementary skin (the dwelling as an outer body-skin)
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also: another-skin, secondary-skin, wearable-skin, nested-skins
pra-supplementary-skinDefinition
⚑ Svoboda's signature thesis-image: the dwelling (and clothing, vehicle, furniture) is a 'supplementary' / 'secondary' / 'additional' SKIN — an outer layer of the same nested skin-system as the body's own skins (external skin, digestive-tract skin) and its inner boundaries (lymph/blood, flesh/fat, bone/marrow, the nervous system that 'shelters your prāṇa'). Humans uniquely 'craftmake' extra skins for self-protection; 'our dwelling spaces form one portion of our supplementary skin.' Like skin and lungs, these built skins 'respire', drawing air/light/water/prāṇa in and out. [MODERN — Svoboda].
Modern
Prāṇa relevance
The skins exist to shelter and channel prāṇa (the nervous system 'shelters your prāṇa'); a well-fitted supplementary skin lets 'breath, prāṇa, and awareness... flow with vitality... into all dimensions of our being.' Directly prāṇa-defined, though the precise mechanism of the skin↔prāṇa transfer is image, not physiology. The structural hinge of pra-prana's dwelling_breathes patch and the rul-house-as-skin rule.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 1 'Skins' (PDF pp.025–026)Modern✓ verifiedhumans craftmake additional skins; clothes = wearable skins, shelter = secondary skin; dwelling spaces = one portion of our 'supplementary skin'; built skins respire; pure awareness adorns itself in all skins; well-designed residence bridges the birth-skin↔structure-skin discontinuity
Other attributes
- System Of Origin
- vastu (Svoboda's body↔building homology)
- Location In Body
- the outermost of a nested series of skins centred on 'the locus of pure awareness' deep within the mind, which 'adorns itself in all these skins'
- Function
- Models the house as continuous with the body, so that Vāstu's object is the border zone between 'our birth skins and the skins of our structures' — the 'one sizable discontinuity' a well-designed residence bridges, 'promoting a natural, easy transition that encourages breath, prāṇa, and awareness to flow.' The conceptual license for treating dwelling and body under one prāṇa-physiology.