213. ON GREATER TERMS

ON GREATER TERMS
All at once it hits me :
It is a sad fate, this bitter envy for time and
space. I read some papers just found in an old valise.
They were wrapped in a string I undid. Scraps
flew about - the dust of ten or fifteen years.
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I understand now, the gravity:
'Only your beliefs, training and neurological
indoctrination prevent you from recognizing the
true nature of your consciousness while you sleep.
You close out those data. In that period, however,
at an inner order of events, you are highly active
and do much of the interior mental work that will
later appear as physical appearance.
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While your consciousness is so engaged, your body
consciousness performs many functions that are
impossible for it during waking hours. The greatest
biological creativity takes place while you sleep,
for example, and certain cellular functions are
accelerated. Some such disengagement of your main
consciousness and the body is therefore obviously
necessary, or it would not occur. Sleeping is not a
by-product of your waking life. In greater terms, you are
just as awake when you are asleep, but the focus of your
awareness is turned in other directions.'
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Shadows reach the well of the lawn.
We are edging towards nightfall.
The rotund barometer of your eyes
and heart try bravely to counter the
ceasing of the light. I can sense, also
that beacon within your heart - something
soft and pounding, beneath your cloak.
Thus, darkness and night should be
welcomed...not avoided.