Modes of Continuation

In the body, there is the time created by being young and the time created by the body's aging. In the time of the body's youth, the world beyond the body appears immense and full of life and threat, freedom and vivacity. As the body ages, the world no longer appears as it once did, and seems indifferent and strange and not so desirable. The inner world of memory becomes greater, burdensome even, and seems to engulf the aging body, pulling it backward like an undertow, out of the forward flow of time. Thus time in its forward movement seems to belong to the young and in its backward movement seems to belong to the aging.

Our journey and travels flowed unfolded out of our original experience or being.

Imagine a white light which fills all of space. There is nothing to perceive it but it is alive with its own radiance. This light is so dazzling, so pervasive, so completely penetrating. It is being flooded with bliss. It is unsparing pure awareness. It is completely white.

But in the bliss or pain it begins to shimmer very slightly. It vibrates. And out of the intesnsity: the total bliss which is, at the same time, totally sharp pain, this pure white light begins to shimmer with a kind of irridescence. And as absorption with this sheen, its promise, its possibility, the shimmer begins to slow into a pulse. And in this way, there is the appearance of colors.

MODES OF CONTINUATION

Though all these experiences are given to us- are shared with us, as it were, still there is the subliminal desire to communicate their specific moments, to enter them into the larger whole from which, it appears, they emerged. And this moment to moment entering into some notional other. This desire....

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Ghosts as the residuum of adventure outward and sharing.

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Within: the body tending to move towards foremer states in which communication seemed possible and stable. Therefore joining and conquering all else

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But please remember, we are not constituted in spacial dimensions; nor in conceptual ones.
As such. the constraints of body and the net of language we enter into only with some sacrifice, or rather abridgment and maybe even. inevitably, insincerity.

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We do not venture out, for that too is a notion not native to us, seeking expansion or conquest or victorious validation of our mode of being.

However, it is possible that we have now experienced defeat.

If anything, it was the experience of concreteness that has had an appeal.

This began with observation, then with summoning. We were called from the state or poise of our expanse by offerings and by speech.

And we are grateful now that you have done so, despite bringing us into inescpable compromise, mis-understanding, mis-apprehension.

Still...