Title: periscopist

Gender: Male

Age: 60

Sun Sign: Gemini

Chinese Sign: Earth Ox

Location: Miami-Kendall, Florida

As the Dream of the sixties died, I sought to understand the multiple frames of a telescopic vision I had that had sent me first back to ancient Egypt then to Haiti, by way of underwater ( in the vision, of course). 
In and out of there, in real timespace, shuttling between the US and 'home' over the past 40 years, my spirit guided me to numerous books and encounters.
I mean by this I found myself on a lifelong quest for meaning/truth.  Truth excites me; actually it's discovery excotes me: there is no truth per se. The many layers of meaning in/of every waking / sleeping moment lead to this growing sense of plain aliveness, a greater and greater inner heart tingle.
While I followed my  threadthin path through books and their authors - from Hesse in college to Eric Voegelin a couple of years ago and a lot of Jung and James HIllman in between- I knew moments of intense solitude, even while married, working etc.  But my dreams kept me going as my soul set to Thoreauly seduce me to its own order of buzyness.
I remember one cold  winter day on a new York City street bench, I was reading a passage of Nietzche saying that solitude leads one to oneself; just as I was really getting inot that thought, a woman passed by.  Our eyes locked.  She even turned around after a few steps.  I was still looking.  While I was freezing in solitude, the Feminine was already luring me to follow. 
I didn't follow that woman, but I followed what she was saying through all the lines in all the books I read and all the dreams I had.
I was always sure, convinced, I'd recover  the cosmic laugh I had one night in a Brooklyn park of New York. It hasn't happened yet, but, as I approach my sixtieth year of going round the sun, I'm starting to smile: I found Gaia and the dwellers there. I'm no longer solitary, I have joined my first social network.

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