Erased
By James A. George
You awaken one day from what you thought was a dream, yet the lights came on and you discovered a secret that only a few people come to know. The dream state isn’t something detached or something that you switch on and off. Life is a continuous dream that is interrupted by people with their dreams, and it is constrained or otherwise affected by the living environment and things over which one has very little control. So, living people thrive in a world of colliding dreams.
In a dream you see a principal actor encountering all sorts of circumstances. While awake one day, someone who knows something about psychology or read an article about it tells you that the person you dream about the most is you. Oh yes, you are the hero, the victim, the lost, the adventurer, all of those things.
Sometimes in dreams you make contact with people who have died. Did they contact you or did you contact them? Do they come and go, or are they always present? Your awareness about spirits, the persons who have physically passed, has something to do with your developing capacity, your intellect, that enables you to engage in space and dimension that stretches the limits of natural sensors.
Do you believe in extrasensory perception?
A credentialed scientist friend once told me that when human chemistry stops, you are dead, and that is the end of it.
“But, what happens to all of that soulful energy that is present in human beings,” I asked?
The scientist answered with confidence, “Energy dissipates back into the universe in all directions.”
So much for the idea that energy is conserved. Soulful energy gets lost according to science.
Well, science itself is ever expanding and testing new ideas, right?
True is that a living person is a biological system with certain senses that enable interaction with other people and the environment in which they live. Living persons have the capacity to pass genes through reproductive mechanisms. Living persons share and exchange ideas through various artifacts that include speaking, writing, and creating images of all sorts. The artifacts of the living commingle with the artifacts of the dead and in that way energy from their creation is conserved and sometime multiplied on merit.
Like everything, what lives and what die and what persists and what is lost is subject to a great deal of chance. The best things are rescued and saved often by accident.
Thoughtless people bulldoze people and things and fail to recycle ideas, materials and assets as if they are in endless supply. More civilized people develop awareness about the value of humanity and devote more time and attention to appreciating living artifacts and to extending life to those things that should be preserved for future generations.
Just dreaming, and if I didn’t write this down, the thoughts would be erased.
Image on a plate by artist Molly Souders, hanging on the wall.
