Post #5 ''Who Are We?"

Who are we? This is a basic human question. This question has plagued us for as long as we have been able to rationalize. Our world of technology, our business enterprizes, our political rationals, our game/sport mentality, all that we make our priorities, all that determines our value systems, all proving us to be what we are----Image Makers! We are Image Makers. We are Creators. Our world of technology alone is spinning us faster and deeper into a world of images; a world we have created, a world we are creating, a world yet to be created.

We are Image Makers. We are Creators. We have created Creation. We have created all that makes up creation; namely: Time, Place, and Matter. Our Collective Consciousness has created Time that our goals may be accomplished; that we may begin and that we may end. We have created Time that we may call an end to all our failings, that we may begin over and over again as often as necessary, hoping to get it right 'this time'. We have created Place that there would be a surface that would serve as our 'playing field', our stage.We have created Place that there would be 'a place' as opposed to 'no Place', that Place that exists only in Non-Reality-the reality we have created. We have created Matter that we may possess, that we may accumulate, that we may own. We have created Matter that we ourselves may inhabit, exploit, and abuse that world and all we have created. We have created Matter that we may play out our goals and desires on that worldly stage that exists only to us, that exists only in our own non-reality. We have created Matter that we may give witness to ourselves, that we may make ourselves present in the reality w have created. We have created Matter that through our substance we may become God.

We have created the world. We have created the cosmos. We have created out of all we have imaged. We have created to fulfill our desire. We have created to the ends of our imagination. Our power to imitate, to create, is as boundless as the far edges of our creation and beyond into our own created infinity. Our collective consciousness has created our reality that moves from the present to create the past, that through the past we may determine the created future.

As masters of imagery, as masters of creation, will we ever be able to answer our basic question of 'who are we?' As masters of imagery, can we answer in Reality (whatever Reality may be) or only as images of that Reality? Does Reality exist outside or beyond that totality of what we have created? How can we possibly encounter this Reality if, indeed, this creation, this cosmos we have created allows us to venture only to the ends of our own imagination or just, at least, allows us only to be able to peer beyond its walls?