AN ONTOLOGY OF STORIES, DREAMS AND ETERNITY

THE
SPAN OF EARTHLY THINGS IS AS A DREAM, BUT A FAIR WELCOME IS GIVEN HIM WHO HAS REACHED THE

WEST.
An Egyptian Harper during the 1st Intermediate Period

All of our dreams have led to this moment but we look around us, and see that all these dreams have led to a nightmare, a nightmare that we desperately want to wake from if we only knew how. We talk and write, filling the spaces surrounding a necessarily silent void with the hope that some-other will, from the shape of the space we have filled, be able to find the shape of this hole, to understand what is that we are not talking of, this echo-less silent void that alone is the desire of our heart, that alone has any im portance for us. Words are too dull of a tool to use in our search for the knowledge that we thirst for. To exist is to be the subject of a narrative, of a story, and in this sense the Etern al does not exist. Eternity tells no tales. The order we experience, in time, is the order of a story. A Story is an order in Time and an order in Time is a Story (and Space is the order that binds all separate stories into a whole). Time binds, but Eternity frees. From Time, we snatch Moments of Eternity. A Moment is the temporary suspension of the drive to become for the satisfaction of Being; it is putting your Trust in Being. Logic, the split between the Temporal and the Eternal, begins with dissatisfaction. The Eternal, is that which is story-less, that which is not part, and can not be a part, of any story. Moments are moments when we forget our story and for that brief moment we live in The Eternal, the divine realm.
B. W. Reed (December 3rd, 2009 & July 31, 2012 [Corrections])

AN ONTOLOGY OF STORIES, DREAMS AND ETERNITY

We need to believe that we are a part of someone elses story, that we are not alone. Dreams are what holds life (reality) together. Without dreams our reality becomes incoherent, scattered, meaningless, without a common story to bind it together. To Love is to pursue a common dream, to inhabit a common Reality, to imagine a common destiny, to perceive one's self as enveloped in a community of our great common dream. Each one of us is the means, motive and opportunity for that great common dream. What is that great common dream? It is, I think, nothing less then Mans atonement (at-one-ment) with God. God, the Eternal, strives to be/become part of the Story, of Time, to join our collective Dream. The Christ in the larger sense, is that within us. that God given part, which knows how to dream an awakening from this nightmare. So the question becomes how do we manifest, listen to, the healing dreams; how do we find the Christ within?

B. W. Reed (December 3rd, 2009 & July 31, 2012 [Corrections])