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Life and Being Video

I was driving all night through Pennsylvania while listening to all ten hours of my songs playing as mp3s and thinking of being, for I had been working on a “Being” pyramid of Matter-Space, Past & Future.

I saw no one on the road for hours and sped up to 85-90 just to see and pass someone. I was alone, but not lonely, for I had my thoughts. Coleman barks was speaking a translation of Rumi called “This we have now”, in which some inanimate things all “wanted” some of “this” and I thought I could use it to start a “Being” video to celebrate life and (human) being.

Perhaps consciousness is like the screen upon which our living film plays out as being—all that we have become after 13.7 billions years, some sit-com people excepted. Well, it sure took a long time for us to arrive (“Nessum Dorma”—They are sleeping) and Meat Loaf agreed in “We should have been home by now”. Well, the dinosaurs came and went and so we finally had an opening to arrive (due to the asteroids? What luck!) just as Cirque du Soleil sang about the spark of life in “Allegria”.

We evolved from almost nothing, just some tiny bits of matter in motion from the “fundamental” forces. We often see past what should be most familiar to us—our consciousness and being therein—sometimes not even noting the sea in which we see.

So, I made some new footage and stitched in some other stuff later on in which I speak about the “now”—all to celebrate “Life and (Human) Being” and to inspire the viewers:

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v580488FcJzcAbG