Perspective

 Perspective


We live in a cave called the universe, in a system of caves called the multiverse.


From our cave we see the star closest to us during the day and the cluster we call the Milky Way, the galaxy in which our star is located, and other stars and galaxies, during earth's night.


There are innumerable caverns in the earth's crust upon which we stand, the dimension in which we live, but the world beneath our feet is completely obscured.


There are places where the separation from the surface is broken, where water and air and light penetrate. These are the worm holes through which people occasionally wander, into the dimension we call the underworld.


Water and air flow far and long in this realm, but the light stops quickly. The metronome that is dripping water creates crystalline sculptures on a time scale where the word days has no meaning and night is permanent, where natural life has no need for eyes, and the word blind is irrelevant.


It is human curiosity with carries light through the portals into these places, our imaginations exposing the beauty deep below our natural domain.


Without us the caves would still be there, which matters to the life within them, and to the physical integrity of the earth's crust.


But without human imagination the magnificence would be implausible, invisible forever. 


We big brained creatures have a great responsibility to convey the magic we possess far into the future and to distant worlds. The machinery we use to accomplish this is irrelevant.


Aubrey Lieberman 

3/22/25

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