A river illuminated by lanterns…

Welcome.

Momentos on the path is the continuation of a lifelong journey of collecting insights along the path of personal revelation. For the past few years, I have filled notebooks and sketchbooks with maps, diagrams, and meditations on the nature of reality & experience. At the same time, the creation of this virtual space marks a transformation in the way this project is carried out – a change beyond just a mere shift in medium.

This change in form(at) arose naturally from a recent change in my understanding of the role of insight & creative expression in my life… a shift in perspective born from the realization that I have experienced the following situation countless times:

I return to a journal or phone note that I had written years before containing a poem, reflection or quick note. It conveys a poignant flash of insight that I believed I had only recently realized for the first time in my life.

Seeing those seeds of wisdom from the past so perfectly support my current place on the spiritual path has clued me into the amnesic nature of the human experience. I may receive a momentary insight or idea that resonates with me deeply and has remarkable therapeutic effects & I may have phases of feeling very aligned spiritually… And re-discovering those momentos from the past has taught me that as long as I am participating in the world of time, identity and appearances, I will continue to experience cycles of alignment & remembrance and disorientation & forgetfulness.

Forgetfulness feels like distraction, like being weighed down by the happenings of the world of appearances, like feeling trapped in my own head, like feeling jaded by reality.

Remembrance feels like mindful presence, like playfulness & flirtiness, like exploration, like a spaciousness that allows for anything to arise within the self without threatening the peace…

When I had my first tastes of remembrance, i tried to hold onto the feeling for as long as i could. Now, with more experience, I am learning to accept and relax into the inevitable undulations of these cycles of rememberance and forgetfulness -having cultivated deeper degrees of faith in the underlying current of truth that exists throughout it all…

“Even if i can not see truth at the moment, it is there supporting me.”

It is ideas and images like these that serve as lanterns that can reassure & support me in dark times of forgetfulness.

This blog represents my personal affirmation of the utility of these momentos -insights captured in the form of writing, art, curation & expression- as integral sources of support along my spiritual journey.

As such, i’ve come to see creative expression as a chance to embed windows unto the underlying dimension of truth within the medium of time & matter.

May the light from these windows illuminate for all.