Erotic Gravity

— The pleasure of falling —

I’ve met many people who talk about “higher consciouness”, “light”, “transcendence”, “wake up” etc… as if there is a whole world above and beyond us. I have always wondered how strange that language is. How might I bother to perceive something “up there” while right in front of us, next to us, between us there are things we cannot even name?

Consider an example. Let’s say you have an out-of-the-world transcendent experience: bliss…