nekdy se da na dobre ulovky narazit na celkem necekanych mistech - z rozhovoru s johnem foxxem, taky z te knihy "Ghost of my life" od M. Fishera
I can detect tiny edges of time leaking through. I feel nothing is completely separate. At
some point everything leaks into everything else. The trick is in finding the places. They are
slowly moving. Drifting. You can only do this accidentally. If you set out to do it
deliberately you will always fail.
It is only when you remember, only then will you realise that you caught a glimpse.
While you were talking to someone, or thinking of something else. When your attention
was diverted. Just a hint, a glimmer, a shade.
Much later, you will remember. Without really knowing why. Vague peripheral
sensations gather. Some fraction of a long rhythm is beginning
The radiance I sometimes refer to occupies this sort of area. I often see people as if in a
frozen moment and they seem to have an internal glow inside them. Their skin seems
translucent and they carry their own time. I feel calm and distant and warm from this. It can
happen in an instant. In very mundane urban situations. You realise you are not looking at a
single person, but at a sort of stream or cascade.
It happened yesterday in a supermarket. I happened to glance at a young woman who
looked like a transfigured hidden Madonna. She wore jeans and a teeshirt, an ordinary
woman. But equally, she was a continuity, a lovely genetic physical thread to other times,
both previous and ahead and still unformed. She simply glowed. Quietly and unknowingly
luminous. The Eternal Woman.
Many of these spring from what I think of as ‘thought experiments’ – things I employ all the
time, as a tool to get at half buried or emerging realisations. If you’re at all interested, I’ll try
to outline a few.
Firstly, the idea interested me – still does – of parallel evolutions – imagine something that
may have evolved alongside us, something we’re not quite aware of yet, that we haven’t yet
discovered.
That may include things which exist in other planes or by other means, or things which
resemble human beings so well that we assume them to be human, but they may not be. Yet
they live among us undetected – the possibility that other forms of life may have evolved
alongside us, but invisible because of their proximity.
‘Hiding in plain sight’ is a great idea, something that’s very interesting in itself – on one
level connected with sleight of hand and parlour tricks and conmen, but on the other hand,
very subtle, intuition led perceptions. It could give rise to situations that are tremendously
moving, fragile, tender. Metaphorically very resonant.
Another one – I’m also very interested in the concept of a singularity. An event that only
happens once, or once every thousand or million years.
There may be rhythms which extend over tens of millions of years and are therefore
unrecognisable to us, except as single unconnectable and unexplainable events.
But the fact that we have no context to fit them into doesn’t mean they don’t happen.
Yet another thought experiments posits the concept of Angels as a connection between
things. An entity that only exists between. A sort of web or connection. They arise purely as
an intrinsic, invisible and unsuspected component of the evolution of the ecology that
supports whatever they exist between. They cannot exist on their own.
Many of us have these little incidents – everything from coincidences onward – things that
we can’t explain using the references we commonly employ.
I’m very interested in those things, always have been. Through those odd things, we
glimpse something that’s outside the way we usually look at the world, and realise there
might be another way of looking at it, an alternate perception to the one we have, and I think
that’s a very valuable possibility to keep hold of. The awareness that maybe there are gaps in
our perception that we aren’t able to fill yet.
btw. tenhle borec nazpíval třeba tohle :-)
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in My Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FT7BKr8GE