This photo takes a little bit of working out. It’s the “source”, or natural spring which lies just a few steps from our house. The water in the source is the clearest water I’ve ever seen. This is a photo of some of the leaves which have fallen into the water, the ones on the right still lying on the surface, and the rest lying on the bottom of the pond.
The leaves on the surface are still brown, but those which have been submerged for some time have turned a pale green colour.
I find this effect quite mesmerising. It feels as if I’ve been given the chance to glimpse what is usually hidden. It’s like a moment of enlightenment, where suddenly I have the chance to see more of the whole, to peek into the collective unconscious, to look directly into the soul of the world.
This experience reminds me that what we see, hear and sense on a daily basis is only a tiny portion of reality. Out in the universe dark energy and dark matter, invisible to us and our instruments is thought to make up the vast majority of all that exists.
And within each of us, only a tiny fraction of what goes on, moment by moment, reaches the conscious mind. All those billions of neurones firing, all those trillions of cells constantly metabolising, all those immune cells busy defending the whole being, all those muscles tensing and relaxing, the smooth muscles beating out their own rhythm……all that lies below the surface.
It’s pretty astonishing, don’t you think?
Heroes Not Zombies 
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