Light If you look up the word 'light' in the dictionary, there are more than a dozen meanings and nuances of context. Light makes vision possible by stimulating our visual receptors. Light exists in a spectrum, including infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and x-ray. Light can travel in a vacuum or within an atmosphere and even through semi-solid (ie translucent) objects. Light's ultimate speed is currently calculated at 186,281 miles (or 300,000 kilometers) per second. It moves as particles in waves, which is more science than I care to get into at the moment. Light is daylight or dawn, a celestial body, a candle, or electric light. It is also spiritual illumination, inner light, enlightenment or truth. A thing that becomes public knowledge has been 'brought to light" or an aspect presented may be viewed in a 'different light." Light may be a beacon or traffic signal or a flame which could ignite other material and create more illumination and maybe even heat. There is also the lightness of being. This is freedom from suffering, guilt, fear and pain. This is the realization of my spirit as an independent entity with minimal restrictions. Even those limits are not really binding, if I consider all other spirits with care and love. With this lightness, I may float peacefully or soar with purpose. There are many versions of soul transport but I believe they all begin with one element, Light. My spirit can be moved, literally and figuratively, by dark light or bright light or multi-colored light. I can be compelled to act by forces of light (or darkness), if I give them the authority to do so, even unconsciously. But, I can also be lifted by the light. The bright clarity of my spirit's illumination can help me transcend this body, this world, this plane and allow me to venture out into the universe, instead of having to bring it down to me in concrete terms, thereby weighting it and reducing its magnificence. Only recently have we been able to craft the technology to go out into space but always we have tried to draw the sky down to us, to our level, so we could see it better and try to understand it. Throughout recorded human history we've been drawing the universe into our minds and connecting with it by learning more about it. Now we can go out there, at least a little. What began as idle stargazing is accepted as science and we're still discovering and accepting and internalizing. We're changing our perception of who we are and how we fit into the biggest picture there is. By doing so, we grow lighter, individually and as a whole. We move about more freely and faster. We release and utilize more energy, more efficiently. We make connections that weren't possible before and we expand into our own special place with all that is. Using water as a model for humanity, we can see the effects of lightness of being and light itself. Ice is solid, heavy, immobile, and usually dense enough that light may pass through but it's significantly reduced or diffused. Even crystal clear ice distorts light. Ice has very little effect otherwise, except a perpetual attempt to freeze everything else into its own solid state. As a liquid, water is more mobile. It flows to fill all available space, albeit downward, until it seeks its own level of stasis, then it goes tranquil as a quiet pool, if left undisturbed. Water has plenty of power, when in motion. It may take eons but it will eventually wear down rock. Water will allow light through, but refracts it, breaking the straight beam of the light and bending it from its original path. Then we have the gaseous form of water, steam or vapor. We know the basic science here too. When energy is applied to water, especially heat, the molecules move faster and expand. They lift and swirl with the slightest movement of air. Light passes through easily and with very little distortion. The components are still the same, but they are now free, to collect together in small temporary clusters of condensation or to keep rising until they evaporate, combining with the air around them. When we unlock ourselves from the rigid form of survival and concrete thinking, then we move toward a more fluid understanding of light and being. If we continue to put energy into this effort, we may gain freedom from the tasks of wearing down solid walls and pushing into every space available, just because we can. We are free to move, to be, to join or stay separate, but still we know that we are like the ice, like the water, like all other particles and forces of energy within the universe. Yet, unlike a molecule of water, we have our own energy to work with and we have the will to direct it. Not only can we allow light to pass through us, but we can be Light. (Light)

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