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Mind Fields 2:
Lexicon: Register 2 (15 Echo)
[Flute notes]
Register 3 (3 Recital Hall)
In the beginning
the (flickering) image
of a human body
from a great distance,
abstract, perfect, sexless.
The human body
gives to the field
its directions --
the face, the back
the right & the left:
North, South, East & West
& also, of course,
the upwards dimension
of the spirit
-- as light as a thought can be --
& the downwards dimension
of matter -- the heaviness
of the body & its
gravitation towards death.
And on the world's body
(this turning field)
we have built a transient city
made of glass & wire
It is our city,
our desire
& the fractured light
of that desire.
It is a city of transparencies
tricks of light & shadow,
a city of heights & depths --
a city wherein the positive
& negative dimensions
mind & body,
spirit & matter,
(whatever,)
interpenetrate each other
so that one aspect
shows through the other.
The people say:
In the poison, there is always a medicine
& in the medicine, there is always a poison.
We did not create the world
& while we give meaning to the world
we are also invaded by meanings
that are not our own.
We project our interior life outward
so that everything around us
breathes like us,
takes on our consciousness,
labours under the same illusions,
& alternately, the external world --
the movement of wind & trees,
birds & animals
the flickering neon
& the falling rain
have become the movements
of the mind & the heart.
From this city which is ours
& not ours
we glimpse the perfection
of the hyper-world.
And we call this city Yearning
& we call it Loss.
We call it What We Need
when we need to call it anything
& its always in the making
& its always undone
& its always unfinished,
incomplete, imperfect . . .
But in the ecstatic moment
which is the now
at the centre
of the field
of consciousness --
the soul's movement
upwards
& the body's movement
downwards
appear to be
the same thing,
equally conditioned by
freedom & compulsion --
a fierce black sun
burns
at the centre of
the no space
no time
in the cage
of the ecstatic heart
at the centre of
the Glass city.
........... synth music continues ........
Sounds come from deep underground . .
Register 4
(Echo 15)
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