XXV

Inculcated in the Cult of Knowledge, pursuing the source of our
first sin, I found that science had become as strange as magic.

The disciplines that had pronounced God dead now claimed
to have seen his face in the dancing of pieces of atoms.

A cosmology based on holography matched maps of mind & universe
physicists visualizing neural networks of an invisible frontier.

Unlike Columbus, when physics reached the horizon of reason it fell
off a precipice into a mist of mystery filled with infinite possibility.

I felt at home in the excitement of these discoveries,
delving deeply into the farthest realms of theory.

In the span of a century information had increased its speed
of travel from a fast galloping horse to the rate of light.

As dissemination increases in speed, it seems the mass grows
exponentially.  In eighteen months now, we double what we know.

Eventually we become overwhelmed in attempting to assimilate
more than what our language can easily hold.

We planted seeds as we learned to speak & writing invented reason,
industry made teaching a factory job & literacy came into being.

With every leap of language, a shift in myths occurred
a reworking of the world following quickly on its heels.