WOVEN UNIVERSE #904 - THE BINDING FORCE: MAURI AS THE UNIVERSAL CARRIER OF INFORMATION

The Breath of Creation

When our tūpuna were trained in the Whare Wānanga of Te Tai Tokerau, they learned that the world isn't held together by accident. Rev. Māori Marsden was taught that there is a specific binding force that keeps everything connected. He called this Mauri. While many people just think of it as "life force," Marsden saw something much deeper. He saw it as the Hā, or the breath of life, that carries messages from the unseen world into the world we can see and touch.

Mauri as a Message

In our way of thinking, Mauri acts a lot like a radio wave. A radio wave isn't just energy, it carries a song or a voice. In the same way, Mauri carries the "source code" or the instructions from the Creator into the physical world. It is the reason a seed knows how to become a kauri tree and not a blade of grass. It is the force that creates order out of chaos. Without this constant flow of information, the Woven Universe would simply fall apart.