It is said God created the material universe – life –
to seek containment
to know mortality through life’s cycles
of becoming and unbecoming – soul making
many humans don’t see themselves as part
of this ONE Being, united with nature and
all souls throughout time – but instead
destroy themselves, each other and their home
while seeking personal immortality
pause a moment –
all we know we learned from nature
and embodied experiences – retained
in a vast field of collective psychic memory
that contains us in an ever expanding consciousness
now human elites seek to escape mortality …
cycles that feed memories to the unconscious
the hidden reservoir that dreams us
the spirit of guidance, the source that
inspires and animates our endless creativity
and enables eternal life of the One Being
… escape towards what …
artificial, disembodied simulation?
consider what is learned through the body
inside a womb … taste, sound, vibrations, feelings …
through relating to adults, other children
animals, plants, earth, rain, sky, stars. seasons …
from early on – crawling that trains muscles
sorting objects, rearranging them
challenged by struggle and conflict
night, death, letting go and eternal return
my intuition flashes red
with an agitated heart – I ask
what will be a human future styled
by AI and disembodied simulations
a world of regurgitated data, made
devoid of struggle or decay – driven
by visions of personal immortality?
My speculative ponderings may irritate some people.
But hey … know thyself – to be human …
‘The ideal is the means – its breaking is the goal.’ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Course of Mirrors 