The Essence of Light (John Dotson’s dream of July 31, 2020)
In continuation of which, in a final sequence, I find myself in a shaded portico. Striated beams of sunlight, extremely thin and delicate, are streaming into the space at an angle about twenty degrees from the vertical. These beams are barely visible, and I can’t determine the nature of the opening in the ceiling. But as the streaks strike some unknown element in a fissure in the floor, reflecting upward at a naturally exact angle, they are transformed into very tangible photons. At first, these seem to be dust particles, but not so: I am perceiving the flow of photons-in-themselves, tactile, streaming up from the ground. I place my hand in the flow and can feel tiny prickles, creating dancing patterns of turbulence with my fingers.