the future..?

`We assume to be ahead of us`

The crowd had been assembling, merely a few minutes - it was as though everyone knew when to...

 

arrive...

 

without any kind of notice given - as though responding to some inner signal. The beings chatted amongst themselves cordially - mostly human.

But then came a few moments of intererference... i i int int...inter- interfre-interfernece... followed by a crackle of static... anticipating loss of signal the dial became as one with the mind... I was been am studying the dial now for am some time am and becoming more ada..ade..adept in its use... [`tshhhh ...`]

Then, a voice suddenly manifested quite clearly from elsewhere:

 

`We assume the future to be ahead of us,

and wrongly perceive our past as behind us

in fact, neither attains truth

and the future does not exist`

 

I felt Red Bear's reassuring presence at that moment... for the message had been directly transferred to my mind, but in my awe had neglected the dial and in a split second the scene before me vanished and I was left alone with my thoughts and the grass beneath my fingertips became, once again, coarse and I sensed its struggle to...

 

thrive...

Reviews

[Emily B]

Thank Red Bear for me. His words are especially meaningful in my world. I had a conversation with a living historian over the weekend. We stood in front of a painting where he appeared as a Native, poised to murder a young white woman on the Kentucky frontier. I asked him what it must be like to look at himself in such a vicious, violent moment. He smiled a little and explained how very posed the picture was. And then his eyes looked beyond me and he explored the memories of how sometimes he finds himself lost to his 18th century persona. How early morning hunting trips found him so at ease in a silent forest that squirrels accidentally climbed up and sat on his shoulder. For those of us who study the past, we put on a different mindset with the clothes. They are not a costume but just an alternative apparel. And there are moments when the boundaries of time blur a little.

[Larry Dyson]

tuning the "ancestor dial"..yes trickie at best..but when She tunes you in ..meant and received...

[Tracie Skarbo]

The power of now...this sounds like a great bit of meditation...you are right those dials are tricky. Once you get the hang of them though...wow!

[Jibey]

"there are moments when the boundaries of time blur a little" - profoundly true

[mick weller]

...hmm... maybe I should familiarise myself with Borges..?

[Emily B]

absolutely, borges, though I never thought of it

[Ed Hart]

Borges!