‘What the hell are we doing here?’ I’m with you there Chris; This is a question that needs shouting from the rooftops.

Our ‘predicament’ is not obvious. Time, habit and automation renders everything into normality.

We amnesiacs have stirred and found ourselves eking out a ‘living’ on a ball of rock hurtling through some sort of void, crystallized inside ‘independent discrete bodies’ and forced to obey a strict order of ‘cosmic’ law. (Nothing is allowed to travel faster than light!)

I repeat: This whole setup is certainly not obvious! No wonder we are thrust into this world screaming.

But why here? I waver between multiple ideas around this (which is where I like to be)

We are either in an ingenious trap, like the devil’s snare in ‘Harry Potter’, The more you struggle the tighter the trap becomes. Or some sort of prison for anomalous aberrations. Or a nursery of sorts; A bubble protected from the swirling, chattering vortices ‘hammering outside’. A fledgeling incubator? We have either been tricked in to it or some other part of ourselves, a part that we have scant access to has ‘signed up’ for this.

I like the idea that our striving for incarnation is akin to a sort of addiction spiral. Like any addiction, the ‘spiralling fall’ gains an irresistible momentum. We are moths to the flame. It’s a painful ride. Hopefully it’s the old story of ‘there and back again’; The descent myth where one ends up where one started, but something unique and important has been added.