On Transcendant Communication

Distance. It lays there like a vast bog of unease. A dark unlit expanse, seemingly solid, yet I know there are areas that will not bear my weight. Areas that will not even bear the weight of my thought. This bog has the capacity to draw you down into its maw, wrap you in its silken muddy depths and preserve you. It is this temptation that is perhaps the single most fearsome aspect of the great expanse.

Yes, distance can draw you to it. It can call your name in the middle of the night. It can be the voice that whispers huskily in your dreams. It can be there in the brilliance of day, calling you to it. As if somehow your answer will fill the beckoning void.

You feel it. I know you have. Sitting in the dark, in silence, when the distance in the room enlarges and you find yourself alone, even when you are "together". This essential gap, this internal cavern that opens and begs you to leap, is intrinsic to the soul. We all crave to close the distance. To bring ourselves closer to something or someone. It is the underlying essence of existentialism driving home its meaning in pangs of day to day reality. We are, all of us, essentially alone. No matter how close we are to another, our thoughts, our feelings, are trapped behind the words we can share. Our ability to translate through touch, sound, picture, etc. - they still lack the capacity for true transcendant communication. As in the end your reality will always be what you perceive it to be, and the best I can hope for is that somehow you may understand what it is that I am trying to share with you. For in truth, you will never see through my eyes as I can never see through yours.

Hence the distance remains, cloying, deceptive and ever so complete. Yet we need to reach out - need to continue to connect. To attempt to close the gap. To find transcendance - and I wonder - is there a better way? These words, these images, this modes of communication, do they somehow block our ability to create the connection, to bridge the distance?

Or can we manage to truly THINK OUT LOUD?