Introduction to the Archives: A Note from the Curator
Filed under: Ontology / Dreaming / Necessary Confusions
Maybe I should start by offering a warning. You are dreaming. That is condition number one. This is not a mistake of nature - it is the nature of everything that comes into manifestation. All matter, all created things. You. Me. Everything.
Everything is alive, even if it appears still or silent. There is this physical realm - but there are many others. Infinite, in fact. And we are alive in many of them - perhaps all of them.
At the same time, there is only One of us here. That One Being dreams through us, appearing as many. And being One, it can only manifest as uniqueness. We are all It exploring Itself. Every meeting is a mirror; It gazing into It’s own eyes.
When I see you, and you see me, we are both dreaming. When we speak to each other, we are jointly deluded. This is difficult to understand. But just by the fact that I am telling you this - and you are reading it - that is the proof.
Are we supposed to wake up? Should we try to awaken ourselves or each other?
Or rather allow, or encourage, the awakening of the One in us? Is it trying to awaken?
Can it awaken in manifestation?
Some say yes.
Others aren't sure.
Most have never heard the question, let alone thought to ask it.
I am the Curator of the Archive.
That’s all.
I record.
I arrange.
I point at trails and patterns.
I tell stories.
I present things that may - or may not - be of interest to the outside observer.
However, everything in the archive is of interest, is important in some way. It is all about context and timing.
In the end, everything is a mystery.
A puzzle.
An enigma.
A riddle.
A conundrum.
Only a very tiny part of what is has anything to do with humans. The rest is out of perceptual range. So, we stay in the Archives. We keep our heads down and our hands busy, our minds alert and our hearts open.
The Archives is where, at the very least, we can document and organize that aforementioned tiny part which comes into our domain and find a drawer for it. The rest is beyond the scope of our work.
That said, let us begin.
Thessaly Cerulean, curator
Thank you for this introduction, it feels both grounding and unsettling in the best way. I appreciate the reminder that even documentation is a kind of dreaming, and that the act of archiving asks us to hold space for mystery, not just answers. Looking forward to wandering these trails you’ve set out.