The case for light, barely made in the last entry (48), is rather encompassing. And no doubt their myriad considerations have implications for us that we rarely attend to. From thinking we actually “see” in real time (which we do not), to those frequencies and wavelengths of electromagnetic energy whose narrow range of sensibility to us as light we call “light” but which include radio waves, the infrared (“below” red) spectra and those above the violet range (of ultra violet) that includes gamma radiations. The longer wavelengths (of less frequency) are also of lower energy, whereas as we ascend (even in ROYGBIV) to beyond the violet the higher frequencies of shorter wavelengths are of higher energy. And it is not without implications for our material structure that these higher frequencies carry enough energy to disrupt molecular/chemical bonds; even, and especially in our bodies.
Though we call the narrow spectrum we see “light” they are all of the same nature of electromagnetic energy, and all moving through a vacuum of space at a fixed speed. It may sound frivolous, it may be too clever an observation…but no matter where we look to see, or in seeing, we are always “seeing” the past. The light though speedy (to us) and time of its traversing whatever distance from object to eye so infinitesimal as to be beyond worth considering…however…in yet another way our presumptions about certain things is upset. Our perceptions, as made subject to time in this place of materiality are not really as we usually think of them. And, no less, there is also a time lapse between eye and brain. But for us, these matters are short enough (of which we can do nothing, anyway) or close enough for government work…in our consciousness. It is not that we account for them, we don’t even consider them. But when we do begin, or allow for their consideration, not only does time present itself as component of disruption, but even our concepts of time (as intertwined with and to them) become vaguely (but truly) affected. Instantaneous in reality becomes less than instantaneous in concept. Or as held as concept.
It seems (at least to me) we are always encountering spaces… in time and distances…and we are always and truly at some remove from this thing we call reality. As though we are forever locked in to being and fully immersed (even in any concept or definition of what we might call reality) as in all of metaphor. “It’s like this…see…?”
But as strange as this might sound, or even somewhat hostile in, and by, presentation…really…what else could it be? How else could it be? If we consider we might know reality as some thing to be known we have either of two positions; for if we are bound up in it and to it we can not appreciate or know it as “some thing other” as for definition. If we think we are somehow exempt from it, or separate as to have a position from which to study and observe it as other, than we must accept we are not part of reality. Neither position is really tenable, is it? Our consciousness will not let us accept ourselves as not real, but reality cannot be known as other thing apart from the reality our consciousness forces upon us.
If only there were a mind of all reality that both fully knows itself as real…but is under no obligation to, or for, its consciousness. A mind not under…dictation. A fully real…and free…mind.
What sort of light would that mind have in effect upon our own?
Any?
All?
Either all acceptance or all rejection…according only to the light of its choosing. And a choosing of which it is under no compulsion to make.
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