I had a thought yesterday, that I should have named this blog 21ST CENTURY MYSTIC. wonder if that's already taken. . .
I think my lifetime will witness the re-spiritualization of industrialized society. it would be nice to design the magic back in, be inclusive of the mysterious beliefs and traditions of the global south/3rd world, as they merge with us in this one-world info network. it would also be nice to be inclusive of our ancient ancesters, who we are learning have a lot to teach us about our relationshiop to the earth. the attached 3-d image is by artist Adam Bruneau. It's lovely the way the red, green and blue are out of registration, kind of like early 20th cent litho illustrations. the more out of register, the more I can see the invisible in the image. cool.
I once saw what I would say was a ghost in a throw away photograph. I was at a friend's house, and they were showing me rather mundane snapshots (real prints & not a flicker site) and then there were some mistakes prints at the end of the stack. I looked into one of the blurred photographs, and a figure became clear. . .a woman in a bun carrying a basket ( of laundry? ) up the stairs, looked like the same stairs that I could see in front of me from their living room. ?? I cannot explain it.
there is hardly a line which distinquishes the imagination from intuition. I wonder: which trigger which? in fact in order to see the invisible past or future, to tap into innate human psychic ability, one must begin with the gift of imagination.
perhaps with the speeding up of our shared sense of time (due to a mad race of technology), we will be thrust beyond an age of science. Logic is too slow for our world. who has time to go through proper scientific processes other than serious professionals in labs? everyday people coping with a rather fast reality are now beaconed-- or rather rushed long--to take leaps of intuition in order to make daily choices. slow contemplation, consideration, logic: they are for the stuborn luddites and a few post-colonial elites who still maintain the luxury of timely pursuits. (ubiquitous ads in the new york times publications promote men's wrist watches, as well as diamonds for the ladies. . .it indicates something symbolic. madison ave has invented an expensive fetish out of the old-fashioned wrist watches, roman numerals and all. . .in the 21st century, those who wear thousand dollar wrist watches, hand them down to their sons as the ads sometimes illustrate, have control in that old-fashioned, leisurely sense of time. . .wrist watches are the new top hat.)
-kt
