Reality Shift

Editor’s note: Discovered this train of consciousness on Jack Heart’s blog. A different drummer march. Erica P. Wissinger

by Mike Kay

Those who tend to consider the issue of reality cannot define what that external something truly is. In effect, reality is nothing more than an inherent ability to order and make sense of a series of impressions that make their way into the biological entity from an unknowable source. Thus, the reality is essentially personal apprehension of the condition of experience.

Yet what is especially interesting about reality is that there is a shared aspect of it, a sort of collective dream. This dream has all the characteristics of existence integral to it, including a bent, and a perspective, and like all such things is subject to change.

Even the banalest of histories admits that unique ages are intrinsic to the experience of mankind. These ages are characterized by certain qualities for which they become known.  The Enlightenment, for example, of the 17^th and 18^th centuries is generally perceived as a positive development. Most would attribute the development of science to this age, as well as more ephemeral characteristics, such as an abandonment of “superstition”, and the elevation of reason.

In effect, Enlightenment philosophy and perspectives comprise the foundation upon which the vast majority of modern institutions and organizations are built, from the governmental system of the United States to the belief that physical sciences hold the key to life…

Read more… on the Jack Heart Blogspot

Mike Kay

Mike has always lived his life on the edge, without a safety net. He is not a traditionalist, although he values tradition. He is not a social maven, although he values a functioning society. In fact anything you might think Mike is, he is not, thus he refers to himself as a nobody. His destiny has led him into the oddest of places, at the oddest of times. He is oft convinced that as in the Hymn of the Pearl, he is doomed to grope around in the dark, having forgotten who he is. His dream is remembering, and his writings are perhaps an ode to this process.

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