tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731669573883861124.post422621859793186148..comments2024-02-24T13:22:39.745-05:00Comments on Seeing Meaning: Image IdeasSusan Waters-Ellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047648549250876500noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731669573883861124.post-42059551485871644472010-10-23T12:03:46.267-04:002010-10-23T12:03:46.267-04:00This is sort of an aside. I once took a class on ...This is sort of an aside. I once took a class on Extraterrestrial Communications. It was a university creative writing class partially sponsored by NASA and SETI. <br /><br />What follows is a short writing about the constraints of words.<br /><br />Dear humans, think of this as something to experience, not merely to read. I am trying to describe the world before words by using words. So to help you orient yourself I have some exercises for you to do. The first one is: Breathe. Smile. Breathe. OK, did you get that? If not you might want to go back and try it again, because it gets more complicated. Be sure you get this exercise right.<br /><br />Will you Play?<br /><br />The next exercise is imagining you are on the seashore with fresh air all around you. Look out at the crashing waves. Now slow down time and imagine you are on one of the waves. You are fully conscious and in excellent possession of all your faculties. Imagine riding that wave with all the sounds and smells rushing in. Welcome to the edge of the evolving universe and what I am trying to describe in words, one of the ways we are a we with ET.<br /><br />Next imagine you are a vessel, a ceramic pot. You are strong and have designs on your sides. Now imagine being inside the vessel, you have grown and the vessel feels tight, tighter, even confining. Now expand your shoulders and break the vessel. Feel your expansion. Breathe. Smile. Breathe. <br /><br />Form a new pot with fresh clay. Make it big enough for your new expanded form. After a while it hardens, gets rigid and strong. It is beautiful! Not perfect, but a very good vessel. Now imagine it feeling a bit tight. I am calling this the evolutionary process.<br /><br />Last exercise before the real thing. Imagine you are the first life form on a planet, a single cell or less, the very first life form. You do your thing...and then you die. Breathe, imagine doing a big grand somersault and breathe again. Many years pass. This time you are a plant with stems and leaves. Do your thing...and then die. Breathe, do a somersault and breathe. Many years later. Imagine you are a highly evolved life form. You have senses that are excellent, you are complex, you are exquisitely conscious. You have just started receiving signals from outer space. Some of the signals are in the form of prime numbers. You can decipher this signal as coming from an intelligent life that calls itself humans. <br /><br />Now imagine you are on an ocean wave the wave you are riding is reaching over further and further. The salty air is in your face. Breathe. Smile. Breathe. <br /><br />:::<br />Thanks Susan for your wonderful blog. It rings true to me.<br />JeremyRebecca and Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03583060824763966714noreply@blogger.com