On Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 1:13
PM, Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com> wrote:
Before
the Dawn. (A song.)
You
say it's been this way for a few thousand years. We've grown
accustomed to a valley of tears. We close our eyes to the trouble
and strife, and philosophize it's the nature of life.
I
dream of a new world that's always been here, but i couldn't define
it to make it seem clear. In imagination it's easily found. I pray
that someday it'll be all around.
(Repeat
verse.)
Guide
us through the night, lead us to a new daylight. Battlefields and
shattered fright, there must be another way. Guide us to the dawn,
through these times that are tattered and torn. May the love within
be born, to a new day.
A
change in the wind and a change in the heart. A long way to go and a
long time to start. A mighty mountain that is so hard to climb. A
rolling river to the end of time.~
RBM.
1978.
The
Other World.
The
preceding verses are the words of a song i wrote, played, and sang,
in 1978. It just now resurfaced while contemplating the same
perennial theme: 'How do you express the seemingly inexpressable ?'
That
was just one attempt among many from back then, and back further
before that. It's the same theme that has always been the connecting
thread running through all my art.
Well,
that was thirty-six years ago as the crow flies. I'm still
experimenting, improvising, artistically and poetically around that
underlying theme. It's like a zen conundrum, though it does bear
fruit, and evolve perception and being. To put it another way, i'm
living it.
So
what am i getting at (or not getting at), and why 'The Other World'
? What other world ?
'The
world' is apparent just as you perceive it to be, but has everything
to do with far more than what we call 'the senses.' Nothing is fixed
or immutable and we are, in essence, quite other than machines. An
understanding we must never reliquish.
Machines
might be a bit like us, (we invent them). That does not mean we are
as they are. They are just manifestations of our current ideas, from
one out of an infinity of possible viewpoints.
It's
very dangerous and deviating to liken ourselves to our toys and
tools. A digger is like a hand but a hand is most certainly not a
digger. We are living organisms, and infinitely more besides.
Our
actual essence is invisible. Integral with a boundless field of
mutable interdependent relationships, which science hasn't even been
able to locate. So forget machines.
You
don't have to look beyond where you are, to see we have been deviated
by a subtle intrusion of a false analogy, increasingly alien to our
essence.
Next
time you're in a plane, look down on urban infrastructure. It's
identical with an electronic circuitboard. That's exactly what it
is. If you break the circuit you are served with a penalty and
possibly put in contact with a circuit court.
The
other world, is none other than the one in which we live, and
breathe, and have, well, some of our being, but are in no sense
actually unplugged from the mainframe.
The
other world is this world, seen through the eyes of innocence and
experience combined. A mature innocence, wholly in the present.
The
world of nature, the biosphere, which we are inseparably one with, is
a miraculously beautiful and indivisible living network of magically
sentient cyclic fibonacci fractals in organically self sustaining
balance and intra-communication, and we are embedded in, and are, it.
Yet
it's plain to see, we are infected with an alien virus based on
rectilinear grid systems. The grid is a net, superimposed, and held
in place by coercion and aquiescence. Restricting the freely self
organizing flow of life energy.
Do
a double take at surrounding infrastructure, and observe it from
above. Easy to do with Google Earth. Alien grids everywhere. We
are entrained to not think outside the box.
Whereas,
when you are attuned to the other world, you're home and in actual
fact never left. So much for modern cities. Rigid alien tombstones
branded onto the nurturing body of Mother Earth.
The
real alien invasion happened long ago. We let our guard down and
were tricked by our own vanity. Falling into a feverish sleep,
dreaming turgid dreams of 'progress' and vain glory. Forgetting
sacred earth and life, worshipping the artificial.
We
are microcosmic bugs embedded in a magical carpet, one with the
weave. Not intrinsically parasites. The only scum, being that which
rises to the top (so called) when the spirit-body-politic is
polluted.
The
planetary body herself, sounds out a resounding primal clarion call,
(Gaia Sophia's correction). Activating antibodies on all levels in
ever expanding concentric waves.
While,
obscene, unthinkable cruelty unleashed rains down on innocence, with
no remorse.
The
stark peak of original 'war in error' unchecked.
Yet
beyond all words, human innocence still radiates the one and only
true strength of spirit.
The
other world is not some other place.
Love,
or you will surely lose the race.
Live
together in a state of grace.~
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Makes
Rainbows.