Sacrifice

Particular material things today, including us, are felt to be self-identical, isolated, devoid of meaning, in a world depleted of any universal binding. The following dream suggests the loosening of any binding that could unite us:

 

I can view Earth from outside, the planet. Then I see cracks developing, Earth is cracking apart silently, the “glue” holding it altogether has withdrawn–gravity! Now I am on a small island in space, a fragment of Earth, as others are too. We can talk to one another but with limited oxygen, we will all die. It was all so silent.

Fragmentation of any universal meaning that can help us locate ourselves or cohere within community and world! I discuss the particular inflection of gravity as “glue” or binding agent in my essay: The Withdrawal of Gravity.

Is it possible for any such modern physical thing to become a site for the universal? What would be the experience of becoming such a site? And what universal could that be?