And now... a bit of esoterica

JUXTAPOSING SENSES IN SPACE AND TIME
Fred Ruark
8/23/2012

CONSIDER, IF YOU WILL, HOW YOUR SENSES EXIST IN SPACE AND TIME...

The audible exists in time                             The visible exists in space

Music rendered comes to your ear...and then is gone

The sheets, where in lies the code of the sounds, remains

The music is gone.  The source remains

The horns and strings, the brass and the reeds remain

Existing in space, their music, exhausted in time

CONSIDER , IF YOU WILL...NO WAIT...NOT YET

The instruments are not the music

Without the player, they only exist in space

In time, the brass may corrode, the wood will dry rot

In time, things that exist in space, corrode, erode, disappear.

The pieces disintegrated are still there in space

But no longer able to produce music in time

The player and the instrument exist in space

Together they produce the music at a point in time

Technology captures sounds and images and makes them timeless

A reproduced disc in space that defies the existence of the player

NOW CONSIDER, IF YOU WILL, A WORLD WHERE ROLES ARE REVERSED.

Things, visible things, now exist in time  and sense exist in space  HMMM

It takes the sophistication of a human mind to create such a world.

Look at something around you - - - - See "it"  Now turn your head - - - - - it is GONE!

They exist only in time...They have been removed from your space.

Is it still there?  Without 360 degree vision, your reality is "here."

But your sensual tool kit has many resources.

You can validate the existence of objects out of your sight.

Just call on other treasures you possess - sound, smell, taste, touch

Like sight, they only exist in time, too soon gone.  And for that, be grateful.

CONSIDER, IF YOU WILL THE AGONIES YOU'D SUFFER

If all of your lifetime sensual experiences were held hostage in your space

Every rock concert, birdsong, car wreck, crying baby, thunder, crashing wave, and symphony

Bombarding your ears concurrently forever!

While the odors of roses, frying bacon, sweet perfume and sewage crowd into your nose.

And every pain and pleasure your tactile nerve endings ever experienced were there forever.

James Joyce captured just such an existence in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

It was his description of hell and it terrorized Daedelus into almost becoming a priest.

So you are lucky you know for the way your senses only exist in time.

The way your senses exist only in time is a gift, a part of your lifelong learning.

You've learned to seek out some experiences and to avoid others

The ability to capture time limited sensual experiences is called ART.

I've said "consider if you will"  Two very important words, consider and will.

To consider is to think seriously.  To imagine an outcome

"Will" is to deliberately choose a course of action to achieve that outcome.

Given the human intellectual ability and the will to  consider things that exist outside of time and space,

We get RELIGION

You can only hope to be free to select your spatial experiences in the time you have.

And to be free to explore whatever it is that you consider exists outside of that realm.

Work hard to stay free in space and to enjoy yourself in time.