TRUTH IN YOUR FACE

David Carse             The difference between awake and not awake is so incredibly thin it hardly can be said to exist. It’s as if, to use an admittedly strange image, all that is needed is a very tiny shift in your mind, to shift your mind metaphorically to one side of where it is, by an almost imperceptible amount; and that shift, that pop would be sufficient to change the perspective enough so that all would be seen as it is. Tiny; so tiny that almost nothing is needed. I call it a ‘phase shift,’ probably from watching too much Star Trek; everything remains as it is, it’s just that the perceiving is brought into phase with What Is. What has changed? Nothing; that’s how tiny a shift is needed.     -   Walking in the Vermont woods at night, I learned at a young age that what you could make out in the darkness, what you could see, depended on how you looked. Repeatedly, you would see a movement in your peripheral vision and turn to look directly at it, to see only darkness. Eventually