In my case, for example, my ancestors are Irish and English. But the ancestors who came to the New World arrived in the 1790s and the1680s. This neither makes me
Irish nor English. I am now a Canadian. That being said, am I a new chapter in an old story? Or, am I a
whole new story?
If one expands the idea of ancestor
back through time, the direct lineage we have in our recorded history is rather
shallow and rather selective. How, for example, do we incorporate our pre-human
ancestors? So, I think the idea of ancestry is, in fact, the passage of
information and wisdom from one generation to the next. It is far more than
just a few generations. It is quite literally, all living things on the earth
that are, will be or have been.
Quantum physics considers that time is
a reference point. It is a point of view. In our present physical manifestation
we perceive time in a forward linear fashion. This is a result of entropy or
what is called the “arrow of time”. But, in fact, the true nature of time is
not very well understood and how we perceive time, is not its full nature.
There are proofs that we can perceive non-linear time and there is nothing in
quantum physics that states we cannot perceive time in a non-linear fashion.
So, if we expand our idea of ancestors
within the context of non-linear time, I think the idea of liminal spaces/edges
and the interconnections of all minded things becomes the world of our
ancestors. It is from this place that we can gain knowledge and wisdom equally
valid as the spoken and written word.
Near where I live there exists the
Badlands of Alberta, Canada in which the town of Drumheller is located along
with the Royal Tyrrell Museum. When you enter this desert-like valley, you
descend in elevation to the floor of the valley through which the Red Deer
river flows. The fascinating part of the descent is that you are literally
moving through millions of years of time. The floor of the valley is the same
geological land upon which dinosaurs walked during the late Jurassic and early
Cretaceous periods. As a result of the power of natural erosion and weathering,
this land where no human originally walked is exposed. Amongst the scatterings
of fossilized forest remnants, and dino bones, one can also find fully
articulated skeletons of ice age bison, too. Layers upon layers of time exposed
as lines in the earth. It is interesting to note that our First Nations Peoples
(Aboriginal) included this place in their myths. European settlers once mined
coal from this valley. Today, this land is surrounded by agriculture; mostly
wheat. In this place, time and a variety of cultural stories intersect in a very
unique and non-linear fashion. The song of this land is, however, mostly pre-human.
To walk on the same land as dinosaurs, now reduced to stone memories of a world
long gone, invokes deep thoughts of the wyrd of humanity.
Passage
Finger taps
to clock tick
Dust
On leather
wood and wool
Old eyes gaze
then settle
On
photographs and dried roses
Near a
blackened mirror
Once reflecting
the grace of bright eyes and smiles
78 discs in
yellowed sleeves
A phonograph
with rusty needle
Whispers
memories of instrument and song
While silent
walls of chipped plaster
And
splintered wood
Vibrate only
to street noise
When cane
hanging sometimes bounces
And calendars
shift to reveal dark paper
Choking weed
strewn garden
Broken
leaning fencepost
Fallen white
wash boards
Weary flowers
blossom
Scent
pounding on a closed window
Hollow hallway
echoes cold
Dust on leather, wood and wool
Grey stone
crucifix, perch for birds
Near fresh
turned soil
Green to
brown then green
A monument to
memory revealing
Emergence
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