Unseen (and Unseeing)
Image made with the machines with my writing as the prompt.
I have been Unseen.
I have not Seen Myself.
I have not Seen...
Now I am Beginning to.
And Unseeing isn't a passive act.
It is an action.
A decision not to see,
To repress, to hide away,
To refuse to address what needs to be addressed.
And to perpetuate.
And seeing again will not happen in one go.
For that is a folly,
Of ‘awakening’ and Seeing
The Other as ‘asleep’.
Of more division,
And division is the problem.
Rather, seeing again is a process
Of peeling back an onion.
Of realisation that escaping one net of illusion
Often leaves us trapped within another, finer net
That we are yet to see.
And when we begin to see this,
We can pull at the finest of threads,
Which involves much pain,
Because this is not ‘escape’,
This is now Dissolution.
And dissolution means there are not Many,
It means that there is only
One.
There is only One to see here.
There is only One to be.
When awareness comes,
It comes in waves
Of crystalline waters,
And of salt.
And it is One.
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Written 08:35, 9.03.2026