It's been a few years since the start of my foray into the philosophical inquiries concerning the Truth of Being. What began as a somewhat straightforward foray into this topic in the form of bounded and defined (thematical and tone -wise, though not exactly coherent), quickly veered into other, stranger directions, first with a side tour into a short story collection of interviews by Stephen "Steve" Harrison, a retired doctor of some renow. With the aid of this character's interviews with various other afflicted characters, the true depth of the issue began offering glimpses into its scope.
This doctor, as is the case often with people dealing with things grander than life itself, ended up somewhat unhinged, not dissimilar to my own situation. However, that's a side-issue for now, a thing to be expanded later, in the upcoming "Mia's Story". This post, or series of posts, was meant to focus on the concept of manifestation, or to be exact, how various metaphysical phenomena can manifest itself into the physical world. My approach has always been to use fiction in order to make these examples clearer, as the effects in our own world can be harder to pinpoint, often fleeting in nature, obviously not directly affecting the physicality of things, but indirectly; via human beings and their actions, or in behavioral patterns when studying larger scales. When exploring this topic in fiction, no laws of physics are of restrain, and thus, one is free to approach these manifestations on a wider range of angles. Since I employ something what I call radical authenticity when attempting to convey these examples, I can only follow what the intuition tells me, and thus, these manifestations appear in their rawest form (if such a crude term can be allowed); case in point, the appearances of various items throughout the world, the infamous holes, the dust of melancholy, peculiarly behaving animals (typically birds) and so forth... not all the aforementioned examples fall under the category of the manifestation of the Truth of Being, however, for this is only the objective side of the coin. The other side, the dreaded subjective one, will be explored more in the second part, which will be about Aesthetics of Melancholy.
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