Breaking symmetries
Moon 5 - Escape velocity
If you wanted to be thrown into the air and never come back down, to actually escape Earth, you’d need to be travelling at just over 11 km per second. If you were standing on the sun, you’d need to travel at 617 km per second to escape. Light is incredible; it travels at 300,000 km per second - that’s how it can escape from the sun and earth so easily. When your escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, that’s when you become a dark star.
Here I am, on the edge, at the horizon, looking back towards the light. I’m still unsure how to re-embark on the journey or where it might be leading me. It all seems irrelevant right now.
Symmetry is all I can see from here, everything is flat and featureless. I rotate and see the same thing over and over from every angle - nothing. Then I remember the lesson: I need to break the symmetry. I need to fill it with matter, with things that matter.
I try to recall what matters. First, it’s hard; then I think of love, the most important presence, and the easiest and safest for me. As scenarios and situations come to my mind, I notice they have a clarity and sharpness, and I recall this is what it’s like when the mind has been dormant in a dark slumber, allowing the body to feel. Why is it I only ever realise that at this stage? The space fills as my thoughts appear, and just like that, I’m back in the gravitational field, surrounded by particles moving backwards and forward through time.
I can’t see it, but I can sense there is freedom all around me, it’s a migration of light. Weight loosens its grip, and I begin to move, through the full air. I move beside the moon, all new and shining, through the fields, along the beach, under the sea, feeling light(er).