Part 1: Introduction to the Series There is a moment quiet, almost spooky, when the pendulum begins to move and you know you did not move it. The string hangs from fingers that have gone soft, almost numb, and the weight at the bottom describes a quickening ellipse that your conscious mind did not authorize. You are alone in a room, or walking a field, or standing in a church whose stones were laid a thousand years before your birth. And something in your body, something beneath thought, has begun to speak in the language of oscillation and swing. This series is about that moment. Not to explain it away,…