Good Night Irene, Sweet Dreams

("Dreaming Gaia", 2020, original encaustic) Good Night Irene, Sweet Dreams We live in a time of two competing visions; The creation myths of sudden and gradual change, Or monotheism’s creationism on one hand And scientific materialism’s evolution the other. Both spring from the same source Of course, The human mind in general And Eastern Mediterranean cultures in particular. In this way they are part of the same continuum Steps along a single ascending path, Not actually mutually exclusive But still wildly at odds. But what about a third option, The option of a changeless nature? This is the view from outside of time and mind Which being changeless has consistency on its side. This is the door that leads to a holographic universe, The matrix of a dream within a dream within a dream… Being dreamed by who knows who Who just happens to go by the name, me and you. Really weird sh*t you say, But as they also say, truth is often Stranger than fiction And it’s clear the two main competing myths are fiction. So there it is, a 21st century view of Hegel’s dialectic Thesis, antithesis and synthesis played out in real time Simultaneously seeming, but actually existing Only in the timeless now. An enigma wrapped in a metaphor Pretending to be a mystery, or something like that Waiting for the dreamer to go back to sleep So the dream can get back to the business of unfolding. (7/11/24)