If you ask me to peer into the future I can only see a cavernous darkness. No sound, no light, nothing resonating. Indeed, how far can I see into the present? I see crowds gathering at different corners of the world, I hear the sounds of now. Are they the present, are they creating the future? There are so many people now, standing in a moonless night, waiting. There is a time to gather - which is now - and people respond to it. But do I see into the future? No. The future must blaze across our skies for us to see it.
How is this possible? How is it possible for the future to blaze across our skies? Is the future not a dark, cavernous night? Ah! but there is no such thing as the future unless it is forged in the foundry of the present. And here we are talking about concepts and metaphors. The future is being, the present is being. What sort of being has the power to blaze across our skies in the future? How will eyes be able to follow it and be guided?
Only a light which has lived through the deepest night can form a path to the dawn. Is there a light like that inside you? If there is you can take it up like a burning arrow and fire it high into the cavernous darkness. Its shaft will be true, its light will burn brightly for all eyes to see. It will be a future, and people in times to come will be able to guide themselves by it. They will say, This is what we are.
That Being of the future is one which is housed in us now. It is not an idea or a metaphor. It is the only being which is strong enough to be visible in the night sky above us, where we gather below under the moonless dark.
I did not think to write this except that I see a future - and feel it and know it - which is more than the sounds and the light and the crowds gathering.
Jay
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