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Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if we shifted our perspective sideways for a moment and focused on the intervals between the ticks of the clock. The pauses between the words. The silence between the footsteps.

Would we awaken to a richer perspective? Perhaps there would be shimmering fireflies of deeper consciousness flickering all around us. A bit like the dust particles that spin and tumble before our eyes unnoticed until light hits them at just the right frequency.

What has stirred this odd meditation in me? A wedge of late afternoon sunlight is slicing through the green space between apartment buildings just outside my window. Skimming extravagantly across the tree tops burnishing the burnt orange in October leaves. Almost like a pathway that I could step out onto – if I had faith sufficient – and follow to the horizon where sunset meets moonrise.

The contrast of light and shadow seems shot full of meaning as if there is a great revelation waiting in the vista where the two meet. The secret to happiness, contentment or harmony in life – call it what you will – that so often seems just out of reach. A secret it seems that everyone but you has in their possession.

In the few minutes it has taken to compose these lines the sun has dipped below the skyline and that mystical shaft of light has dissolved. The secret that it holds has retracted back into the folds of evening. So tantalizing close but now out of reach again.

At moments like this I am inclined to believe that we have an inborn radar system for detecting governing principles that lie hidden in the borderlands of perception. But here’s the catch. This early warning system is programmed to steer us clear of these truths.

Why should it be so? Perhaps it’s easier not to know. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge, on the other hand, comes with obligations and consequences. Choices need to be made that we may not trust ourselves to make.

In the deepest recesses of our psyche we long for unity. To be connected to the world around us in deep and meaningful ways. To be bound down in the roots of our being to one special person. Body and soul, heart and mind. It might just be that we fear that the all consuming secret will prove us unworthy of that gift.

It is loss of what is precious to us – to a degree far beyond what is rationale – that we fear most. The radar system is our defence mechanism against that eventuality. But it just may be that it is protecting us from what we most desire.

There are moments when the radar powers down despite our will and those fireflies of extraordinary perception become visible. It seems always to be at those moments of time turning.  Brief intervals when the lines blur and vision becomes clairvoyant.

I’m talking about moments of sudden light. When the clouds of caution part ever so briefly, intuition merges with reason and, yes, metaphor crosses paths with the literal,

May you dare to look into the eclipse at those rare moments.

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