Tropical Splendour

Tropical sunshine streaming down from a clear blue and white sky with fleecy white clouds edged with wisps of mist like giant grains of popcorn drifting slowly by way up in the sky The sunshine bathing the sugar cane fields below with golden sunbeams saturating the texture of its long grass-like leaves with its radiance enlivening them and transforming the fields into an emerald sea of brilliant green Tropical breeze swaying the sugar cane leaves gently caressing them making them dance in unison like the waves of the ocean The dancing leaves vibrating in harmony with each other create a murmuring sound that builds in intensity and reaches a crescendo like the roar of the waves of the ocean setting the leaves in a wild dance of ecstasy and then gently subsiding to the soothing sound of a gentle breeze inducing a state of peacefulness and tranquillity At such moments alone with nature one can feel a strange unity with everything around Unity that is so strong and overpowering that one loses consciousness of one's individual self one has no consciousness of time and space but only of that moment - the infinite eternal NOW One's consciousness seems to merge with a deeper consciousness of the unity of all things in nature and the cosmos One experiences an awareness of a deeper reality that is impossible to describe in words One makes contact with one's cosmic roots in a dimension where time and space are irrelevant It is the synchronisation of one's consciousness with the absolute and ultimate reality of the cosmos As a young boy, around nine or ten, I used to love to be in the sugar-cane fields in my native tropical island, Trinidad. I got a natural high, being dazzled by the brilliant sunshine and listening to the sighing of the sugar cane leaves as they swayed in the breeze like the waves of the ocean. I felt that Nature was speaking to me, transporting me to another world where I connected with my cosmic roots, becoming part of the unity of all things.