What Does A Soul Look Like? Light - A Meditation (Part 2)

Here’s an example I noticed one night while laying in bed with my eyes open…

What if a soul looks like a patch of light from a street lamp that slips in through the living room window, glides soundlessly down the hallway, reflecting off the mirror on our bedroom door, to illuminate a small geometric section of our dark, otherwise lightless bedroom wall.

The more of these small observations I did, the more I found myself drawn to the one’s that involved light. It’s fascinating why we as humans are drawn to various light sources around us. (Perhaps it’s because our primary source of light and life is the sun?) Our eyes are automatically drawn to lit windows, the moon, headlights in the distance, campfires, candles, and so on. (Are we so unlike a moth?) And not surprisingly all these light sources are also overlaid with ancient and modern associations of soul, spirit and presence. What do lights and souls share in common?

For this week’s meditation I made a short film simply called, Light. All the shots in the film were seen with my own eyes, over a single evening (Friday), mostly on my commute home from work and on a date with my wife, with no special effects added. I’ve done this commute many times, but it has never looked like this before. (Perhaps the power of observation has the power to change how the world looks? Or is it the other way around?) The trees in the film are only a half a block from my house, and I don’t think I can ever see them the same way after they offered a glimpse at their magic to me, real or imagined. (I say hello to them now when I walk by.) The world is illuminated in mysterious ways when we look deeply in. I feel grateful to see it for both its truth, its fiction and its magic.

Ask you watch the video and look towards the week ahead, ask yourself…What animating qualities do lights and souls share?What spirits and presences live in the lights and bodies around us?What will you do with what you observe?

(ps this video is best watched off in the dark with the lights )