lateral day saints…
July 18, 2007
Gwanda:
i woke up @ 02.22 this morning with the vocalist from Temple Beard Melchizedek - u know, the rabbinical prog-rock band circa 20BC - sitting at the foot of my bed.
waskabu aarsh!
maybe i was dreaming but either way, he said:
“…the universe & your back yard are pregnant with meaning, whispering the very secrets of G-d - even your technologies mouth them!
“look no further lateral day saint than the humble email. you hit “send” and take for granted that it will arrive half way round the globe - intact, as a true representation of what you sent….
“and yet consider that in order to travel, the message gets broken up into multiple discreet packets of information, that levitate separately through the electronic ether, only to miraculously coagulate, fully restored at the receivers end.
“…in the same way, G-d presses “send” and projects you and i into the world. in the process of incarnation, we become fractured & broken into little pieces…and yet like the email, these shards of us - collectively made in the Image of G-d - are destined for ultimate restoration and WILL NOT FAIL to manifest the Divine Dream…
“that is me…
“you…
“us.”
i don’t remember falling asleep and when i awoke he was gone, but for the words echoing in my head.
(reality? dream? fiction?)
does it matter?
