Between Something & Nothing
Between something and nothing
The ebb and the flow
The words that have meaning
And the ones we let go.
Between truth and fiction
And the dreams that we make
The life that we live
Asleep or awake
Between now and never
What is and is not
The ones that are guilty
And the ones that get shot
Between all we hold dear
And the things we must fear
Lie the questions we ask
As we peek through this mask
At a dream that’s not clear
We appear
To be here.
OPHER 26.11.96
On our first day we open our eyes into a brand new universe. It blinks into existence.
We accept the majesty of it as real and base our lives on the concrete character of its unchanging nature.
We only see a fraction of its reality. We glimpse the rest at best. Our instruments are our spectacles.
So what is this consciousness we hold so dear? A product of biochemistry? An evolutionary phenomenon?
Our awareness is an incredible and amazing delight.
Without it where would we be?
Nicely done Opher! Indeed, the eternal question, what is the fundamental nature of reality and how do we relate to it: one’s unique perception is undoubtedly key to the way in which we experience the world.
‘Without it (awareness) where would we be?’ – blind to ourselves and others, uninspired by our wondrous universe, and without desire for self-realisation?
It seems to me that the closer we get to understanding reality the more we acknowledge how dynamic, energetic, and transforming it is: always in a state of transition…there seems to be little that is actually stable, fixed, or unchanging upon which to fixate. Far easier perhaps to align oneself with that constancy of change and remain fluid in relation to our inner and outer worlds?
Enjoy your day. Stay safe!
DN
Hi Dewin – good to hear from you. Glad you are safe.
I think I have been obsessed with reality forever!
Thanks Opher.
Wondrous as reality is in our ever-changing universe, there is always room for consideration of the supernatural…after-all, some force of will, intrinsic in all things, perpetuates the underlying processes of conception, emergence, existence, entropy and disappearance.
DN
Cheers Dewin.
The universe is amazing. So much is unknown. I think religion has had a bad effect for me with all its power games and bollocks. Likewise a lot of the NewAge silliness. Reality is weird. Mysticism is real.
Perhaps one day science will reveal the mysteries of existence already known to the sagacious Mystic: a great convergence of head and heart.
DN
There is much of the mysterious still to be discovered. We are just starting out!
To what fantastic ends scientific endeavor will take the human-race remains to be seen, but I imagine that will be determined by the hand that controls the proverbial microscope. One hopes that hand is benevolent.
DN
So do I Dewin. There is the fear.
I think that when science has developed further it will be indistinguishable from mysticism.