An Imaginary Life...

This is just a few sections (and a few bits added by me) from the book An Imaginary Life by David Malouf. I am studying this book in English at school and I am enjoying it because it steps past the boundaries of normal thinking about the world and the way other people see it.
It’s a good book to read so far if you like a book where you have to see past the words on the page and find the hidden meaning within them. If you like that sort of thing, go out and read it sometime :)
As I keep reading the book I will put more writings on here…


We as humans only know landscapes that have been shaped for centuries to the idea we all carry in our souls of that ideal scene against which our lives should be played out.
Do you all think of your place in the world as a place given to you by a god or gods, ready made in all its placid beauty? It is not. It is a created place. If a god/gods is with you in your place it is because you have discovered them their, drawn them up out of your souls need for them and dreamed them into the landscape that they shine. We have dreamed sprits, angels, gods, devils into our lives. They are ourselves. The Bible is ancient myths and stories dreamed up by humans of our world.


The spirits and gods of the world have to be recognised to become real. They are not outside us, nor even entirely within, but flow back and forth between us and the objects we have made and the landscape we have shaped. We have dreamed all these things in our deepest lives and they are ourselves. It is our self that we are making out there, and when the landscape is complete we shall have become the gods who are intended to fill it…

Human Beings Are A Disease, A Cancer Of This Planet...

Our hearts desires.
Our mornings grace.
Our kingdom we seek.
Our salvation we plead.
Our vast love for power.
Our love for others misfortune.
Our desire for there to be always an answer.
Our changing ways that end up not changing us at all.
Our search for something bigger in the universe than ourselves.
Our search for the answer.
Our search for the explanation.
Our ignorance of the weak and helpless.
Our blinded minds and eyes of how religion controls the lives of the believers.
Our forever search for love.
Our search for that one person that will complete our heart and soul.
Our desire for love so deeply that it ends up being our greatest downfall.
Our desire to live forever.
Our fear of death.


But what is ‘forever’?
Is there really such thing as death or is it just a state of mind?
Or is it just another passage in our lives?
Sometimes I wonder if our world or our lives is just like a matrix.
That everything around us isn’t real and is only a state of mind.
If it was then I should be Neo because my last name is Anderson and that would be cool :)

Anyway,
I suppose no one is ever going to know the answers until they ‘die’ and then those answers are only known to the dead.

Time Is Everything…