In Arcadia

"He was overwhelmed with a reminder that at some moments the earth seemed like a fabulous stage set for an imortal drama, or initiation. The trees, the arbours, the orchards, the sweeping fields, the abunant heavens, all the astonishing colours of nature, the flwers, the hills, the lakes - it all seemed the most extra-ordinary setting for wonderful events, for the most fabulous adventures in living, for marvellous festivities of the huma spirit. The perfect setting for humanity to perform the most amazing feats of history making, of self-overcoming, of transcending, of momentous 'becoming' . We have the setting, Lao was thinking, we have the consciousness, but the grand event, the luminous illuminaton is missing. It seems we are not up to it. Here we have a world of legends, of pyramids, of oceans, of mountains, deserts, valleys, meadows, volcanoes, waterfalls, colours that bring tears to the eyes, we have trees and flowers and animals of unbelievable variety, we have civilisations vanished and civilisations that are here, we have a world shining with mysteries and terrors. The stage could'nt be better - and yet it seems we are not up to it. Our imagination is not commensurate with the splendour and potential of the stage provided. Our love is not commensurate with the possibilities of the world. It seems we are not up to the grandeur of he tremendous stage of nature, of the earth, of the universe. We are overwhelmed by the power, the vastness, and the unknowability of it all. Humanity suffers from a profound stage fright. Faced with awesomeness of it all, before the marvellous setting fit for gods and monarchs of the mind, humanity is frigid. The most dramatic thing we've been able to do, it seems, with this setting fit for masters of the spirit, is wage war. There ought to be a creative equivalent of waging wars, something worthy of this masterpiece of creation, thought Lao, in a flash of incomplete illumination."

- " In Arcadia" by Ben Okri

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