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we … are trespassers … can you feel them? the blooms, electric? our world is pregnant with other worlds - transient planes of existence that are provisory to entirely disparate rules and ids and forces … why do we even question such? particles and waves of many kinds are continually passing through us yet we doubt even the most minimally miraculous happenings simply because they may not alight upon our retina or tickle the tympans of our ears or stimulate our neurons … consider for a moment how extraordinarily vain and shortsighted it is to think that our actuality must be the sole vessel of our energy - we are such incredible marvels! the most wondrous of wonders and worlds is the delicate, intricate intensely complex bundle of systems and processes that keep us alive - that compose the human body - yet we question the ephemeral potential of this unimaginably vast Universe and the prospects of those universes that may exist elsewhere or may lie right where we ARE but in different spheres - different stratum that are governed by physics not based on matter or ordered by TIME … can you perceive it about us? can you sense the awe and fascination that we drown in amidst our ignorance of ‘otherwheres’ and without? silence is NEVER silent - there is always a voltaic wash of … something … darkness is NEVER dark - it is filled with a million points of electric color! (close your eyes tightly … do you see it?) LOVE does not come from an organ or system or bodily process yet there are few things that we FEEL as deeply! but why?? HOW?!? what composes those kinetic forces and energies? where do they originate? they are real and tangible, yet we have no way to measure them - no quantum method of calibrating their affect upon us … so what IS that world that holds their mysteries and scope? what other substances or laws do we ripple every time we move through this invisible sea of gases and particles? what magical realm holds those answers? is that where we are headed when we leave our own corporeal selves? how can we doubt that our loved ones may be with us right now when we know far less about this dream of ours than we do the innumerable amount of things we still have to learn? we are such treasures - every ONE of us - and we are on a fantastic journey that THIS life may be only the beginning of! next time you take a breath cogitate on all the amazing processes taking place in that invisible moment and think of all the unimaginable phenomenons that MAY be transpiring … pause for one brief slice of life and DREAM … dream of what is and MAY be saturating our existential activities - the marvelous, indescribable hopeful, extraordinarily limitless possibilities of the unknown and unseen … and WONDER!

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Date: 4/18/2022 3:34:00 PM
i am in complete agreement in the wonder of it all, greatly proposed aspects to it all...line after line of logic...loved it...life truly is a miracle Greg deserving gratitude...well done
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