after carlos castaneda

dreams are a genuine field for exploration,
a realm of real events.

whatever we are perceiving is energy,
but since we can’t directly perceive energy,
we process our perception to fit a mold.
this mold is the social part of perception.

human upbringing locks assemblage point on habitual position.
immobilized, perception can be coached and guided to interpret,
guided to perceive more in terms of system than senses.
to perceive a world of hard objects

of either positive or negative value
must have been utterly necessary
for our ancestors’ survival,
but i am convinced that

for man to survive now,
his perception must change
at its social base
[:]
the physical certainty
that the world is made of concrete objects.

i am saying
this is first a world of energy,
then a world of objects.
a mighty effort should be made
to perceive energy as energy.
(predatory and poetry)
to perceive essence of everything
will make us understand, classify, and describe
in entirely new, more exciting, more sophisticated terms.