The Journal of A Perimeter Man Vol. IV, Metaphor Bridge: Metaphor Bridge

By Jann Burner

The following images and ideas are metaphors from one man's life. They are not held to be hard truth in the empirical sense, more these metaphors are meant to be truth sensors. When a specific metaphor and a reader's personal experience close, they set up a vibrational resonance. When the "resonance" is first felt one might note a feeling that "this makes sense". As the vibrational field continues to close one might begin to see the particular matrix of metaphors as "true". Then comes the "Ah ha..." feeling which means that one might notice a slight "d?j? vu" feeling as if the "idea" or metaphor stream is more than objectively true, it becomes an "inner truth". And then if the metaphor bridge arches from the printed page directly into the reader's heart it becomes intimately personal and is capable of dissolving long held frozen emotion resulting in tears, shaking, or other signs of physical discharge.Metaphors are names and symbols which mark something and allow it to stand for something else. Metaphors have symbolic meaning often above and beyond the named object or emotional state. As humans we come into a chaotic world. Those who have come before have given "things" names, and for us these "things" become the names and these names have powerful symbolic value.For an example The Internet, one might say, is a metaphor for an Overmind, a vast cybernetic net of metaphor thrown over civilization at large, an active matrix of ideas and images commonly shared by the composite human mind and available to the individual throughout the world, regardless of caste, color, religion, gender of financial status. This is the true democratization of the metaphor. No longer is it limited by mere language, intellectual caste or economic privilege.The purpose of a Metaphor Bridge is to better align Spirit, Mind and Body, through the use of metaphors, in order to create a Bridge between the Spirit and the physical body of the reader. The brain merely serves as the control room where the screen of recognition is housed. We all know lots of things. We know more than any human in history. We know more than we will ever have reason or need to know. In our culture we stand beneath a constant shower of information, but we are seldom moved to "own" our knowledge. Our wisdom, knowledge and beliefs are like a closet of clothes with the price tags still attached. They are lacking in true ritual or value. Because information is so easily assimilated we tend to dismiss its intrinsic value. To follow the "clothes" metaphor, we try them on and then hang them back in our closet with the intention of wearing them at some point in the future, should they become "in fashion". But the understanding is that these metaphorical clothes can always be returned if un-worn. We don't have to "own" them. Sort of like our jobs, relationships, cars or cats, they can be exchanged, co-mingled or abandoned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475022301
• ISBN13: 9781475022308
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"