The Illusion of Motion -
This is a guest post by Joseph Farley, thank you Joe. The Illusion Of Motion The spot on the ceiling that seems to crawl may be a spider, or it may be the mind that wanders, a particle drifting through space while galaxies of memory churn and mix sight and sound, past and present. The spot moves, or it stays in one place while the ceiling moves, shifting against the motion of the moon as do the stars at night, leaving the fixed star in heaven for its season to focus attention until another spot (the fleck of a bird passing by the window, the shadow of a car on the wall, the crack in the door that lets the light in) beckons and the mind follows where it leads down roads of mystery and revelation, over distance and time, until all things blend as one streak of motion, a single line of thought that becomes a point when viewed head on, a spot on the ceiling, a point to ...