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Walking in a Dream
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. ”
As I looked forward to the last leg of the journey on our first day, I felt as if I was in a dream. I thought about the Celtic people who were here over 2000 years ago. I wondered if their life was more dream than reality. And what of our lives? We are consumed with social media, messaging services, mobile phones, an instant click on whatever your heart desires reality, but it pales to the soft light that colours dreams. There is no going back, but it doesn't hurt to visit once in a while.
This is from my Trover photos on the second day of my hike on the Pembrokeshire Coast Trail.
The rest of the collection is below:
Watery Mirrors Video
“Man needs colour to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water. ”
Here is a video made from photos on the Pembrokeshire trail:
Watery Mirrors
“The only journey is the one within.”
Reflections...were they the beginning? Certainly, there wasn't a particular time when consciousness began, but I can't help but think that watery mirrors were the first window that we looked through that gave us more than a simple visage.
The photo essay below is from photos that I posted on Trover. It is a rough draft of something much deeper in my soul which I just can't frame correctly...someday...someday
Wandering Poet
““Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ”
I work to make money so that I can eat. I wander about and think so that I can live.
We are a sad world. We spend all our time and energy creating things. In order to do this, we destroy the Mother who bore us. We work tirelessly trying to find our way off this warm, sensational organism called Gaia so that we can find a new home in the cold inorganic sprawl of space.
I suppose this is wandering too, but I am not sure that there is much thinking going on.
Below are some photos taken on a trip to Wales...there are quotes and some ramblings that accompany the photos...take a gander if you so desire.
The Butterfly Selfie Effect
I find myself thinking about Zhuang Zi and his little story about the man dreaming he was a butterfly only to awake and wonder whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man. I am not entirely sure what he was trying to get at, but I suspect it has a little to do with our infatuation with our self.
Now, it is quite natural to want to define our self. After all, "Know thyself" is inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. And, as individual organisms, we are biologically programmed to stay alive long enough to reproduce (this question merits much larger discussion for obvious reasons, but, in general, this is true and I don't want to get bogged down with it at present). However, I think Zhuang Zi was looking at a much deeper question which ,until recent scientific discoveries, was merely a philosophical question: We are not entirely what we think we are.
Now, the purpose of these blogs is to bring up certain concepts that will be central to the story Time Is Space. And, one concept is the possibility that we are not fully capable of truly understanding who and what we are. It is, at times, an incredible conundrum, yet, it is an astonishingly absorbing question which can be quite satisfying to try and pry open.
I am unable to answer the question for you, but I will leave you with a very fine video to watch on this subject. It is a video from the Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell people and it is both entertaining and stimulating.