virtual FIELDS

The Aboriginals believe that the ‘dreamtime’ lays down the pattern of life. Not just at creation but now. It is an energy that flows constantly through the universe. During their tribal ceremonies, as they perform songs, dances, music, and paintings from ‘the dreaming’, their mind holds focus on the collective wealth of dreamtime wisdom, passed down from their ancestors in the realm of the immaterial.

Art historians suggests a link between images seen in trance-like states of mind, akin to those induced by tribal ceremonies, and the common motifs seen in cave paintings across the world. The ceremonies are believed to somehow impart power and life to their images in another realm.

Another interesting story is that of the biblical Tower of Babel. During its construction, God caused the people to all speak different languages, else “there was nothing that they imagined to do that would be impossible for them”. So God ‘scrambled’ their ability to communicate! Here we see again some links between a tower they had built that ‘reached up to heaven’, their imaginations, and reality.

Today, our communications towers reach up to heaven, the higher they stand the further the signal can travel without being hindered by natural and human-made structures.

The design and transmission of ‘all that we imagine’ creates a ‘make-believe’ space where anything is possible. Our ‘air’ space propagates other imaginary universes, places, and characters. We have as it were two lives, one of which exists and lives in the virtual fields… and just the thought of being ‘disconnected’ is almost as horrifying as the ancient fear of angering the ‘rain gods’.

So we perform our rituals. We update our facebook status, check our email, and twitter the news; the density patterns of our collective footprints paint the fields of influence in virtual space, and the knowledge of our tracks seems as precious as sacred knowledge.