Burnt State
Paranormal Adept
^Why this image up above, the one we are all on right now is so important...
We see "the Earth now as it truly is, bright and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats," and "men and women as riders on the Earth together, on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold, brothers and sisters who know now that they are truly brothers and sisters."
from:http://www.context.org/iclib/ic03/schweick/
I recently picked up a 16mm film called, "No Frames, No Boundaries" that takes a lot of its direction and text from the above astronaut commentary. It's an anti-nuclear film that begs the question, "what are we fighting for?" These imaginary borders and lines all across the planet that exist no where else but in the maps we drew. They in turn brought forth bloodshed in order to defend them and says a lot about how power has defined our own existence for so long. For another way of looking at this mess, here's one of my favourite poets talking about the same ills and what we need to do, over and over again.
The Discovery
by Gwendolyn MacEwen
do not imagine that the exploration
ends, that she has yielded all her mystery
or that the map you hold
cancels further discovery
I tell you her uncovering takes years,
takes centuries, and when you find her naked
look again,
admit there is something else you cannot name,
a veil, a coating just above the flesh
which you cannot remove by your mere wish
when you see the land naked, look again
(burn your maps, that is not what I mean),
I mean the moment when it seems most plain
is the moment when you must begin again
We see "the Earth now as it truly is, bright and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats," and "men and women as riders on the Earth together, on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold, brothers and sisters who know now that they are truly brothers and sisters."
from:http://www.context.org/iclib/ic03/schweick/
I recently picked up a 16mm film called, "No Frames, No Boundaries" that takes a lot of its direction and text from the above astronaut commentary. It's an anti-nuclear film that begs the question, "what are we fighting for?" These imaginary borders and lines all across the planet that exist no where else but in the maps we drew. They in turn brought forth bloodshed in order to defend them and says a lot about how power has defined our own existence for so long. For another way of looking at this mess, here's one of my favourite poets talking about the same ills and what we need to do, over and over again.
The Discovery
by Gwendolyn MacEwen
do not imagine that the exploration
ends, that she has yielded all her mystery
or that the map you hold
cancels further discovery
I tell you her uncovering takes years,
takes centuries, and when you find her naked
look again,
admit there is something else you cannot name,
a veil, a coating just above the flesh
which you cannot remove by your mere wish
when you see the land naked, look again
(burn your maps, that is not what I mean),
I mean the moment when it seems most plain
is the moment when you must begin again
, and if 
... and it worked ... lol. Now we just have to wait for the headlines ...