It is not to belittle Surrealist activity — as it has unfolded from 1924 to the present day — to consider it as a game, in fact as The Great Game, whose prizes in the eyes of those who played and lived it, can be calculated in promises of freedom, love, revolution, and in anything else that intransigent desire can aspire to.
— Philippe Audouin
Music Coming from the Missing Pages, Michelle Tennison
What do I absorb from the sun and stars?
My mother’s voice
Question Mary Ellen Binkele, Answer Michelle Tennison (2014)
Many of the French surrealists of the early 20th Century were poets.
Maybe that’s why this game they invented (which is so easy to play) has a lot in common with exceptional poetry. At times it hits home with an epiphanic jolt and even an aesthetic rush … and it’s full of metaphors, which Aristotle considered the mark of genius.*
The fact that we’re playing a game and we laugh a lot more than we usually do with poetry is a just a nice bonus.
*The greatest thing by far,” said Aristotle in the Poetics (330 BC), “is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblance.”
Dormez Vous, Michelle Tennison*
Question Sabine Miller, Answer Michelle Tennison (2015)
*The bee must have spent the night on this cosmos flower. It awoke about a half hour after this photo was taken.
Walt Whitman quote from Specimen Days, Crystal Spring Park boardwalk, Laurel Springs, NJ, photograph by Michelle Tennison
What is the shortest distance between two points?
A fully formed body of light
Question Sabine Miller, Answer Michelle Tennison (2015)
Question Michelle Tennison, Answer Dietmar Tauchner (2017)
Synchronicities are glimpses of transcendental unity, what in Latin is called the “unus mundus,” the one world. The unus mundus is the unitary and unifying realm which underlies, pervades and contains all dimensions of our experience. The unus mundus, just like the deeper, dreaming Self, is a psycho-physical reality, a universe beyond time and outside of space in which psyche and matter are inseparably co-joined as interconnected parts of a deeper, unified field. The unus mundus is a world in which we have already woken up. It is a realm beyond duality, beyond the opposites, beyond even the concept of beyond.
— Paul Levy
you can read the whole article here:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/catching-the-bug-of-synchronicity/
… synchronicities are moments in time in which there is a fissure in the fabric of what we have taken for reality and there is a bleed through from a higher dimension outside of time. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, as they are moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering us an open doorway to lucidity.
— Paul Levy
What is humanity?
somewhere inside
a torus
of crows
Question Dietmar Tauchner, Answer Michelle Tennison (2017)
Indigenous peoples who still live close to the earth experience life very differently than we do in the West; they seem to perceive things that we cannot see, things that they are surprised we do not perceive. The explanation for this is simple, but profound: when you ask them where in the body they live, they gesture to the region of their hearts, while modern Westerners typically point to their heads. Perhaps the great lyrical writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had some insight into this phenomenon when he wrote, “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Stephen Harrod Buhner
Everything leads one to believe that there exists a certain place in the mind (point de l’esprit) where life and death, reality and imagination, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low will cease to be perceived in opposition.
— Andre Breton, Second Surrealist Manifesto
When does future begin?
cicadas — everything that
was never really river
never really was
Question Dietmar Tauchner, Answer Michelle Tennison (2017)
A Lit Jellyfish 
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