In The Caves of Swimmers - Rich Meyers

[Larry Robinson]

In The Caves of Swimmers

 In the Gilf Kebir plateau in the Sahara side
of Egypt there is a cave containing rock paintings
of swimming figures. Did these figures represent
escaping an Ice Age climate change, a desert 
drought, or a Paleolithic form of buoyancy found in
dreams? It's possible they were learning a way
of moving inside their lives amid the waters of 
uncertainty. There is a sense that they are 
practicing a devotional shape of their own dream
of life; it could be that they are swimming towards 
God.
     In the caves of our own current lives, whether 
floating or drowning in a troubled ocean, aren't we
pulled by a magnet in the same divine direction? 
From our own beds at night we may float the storm, 
dive into an astral star wave, not to flee but answer 
a distant beckoning. It has been called levitation, this 
rising in a luminous night spell like the gesture of prayer
in a swimmer's breath that reaches for the shore.
It's been called astral projection, rising, lighter than bones, 
above our bedroom walls, beyond ceilings of moons and 
paths of stars like an ageless body swimming through 
centuries of sleep.

     - Rich Meyers

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