What's eating off of your plate tonight?
When we feed, we create an action intended to maintain a symbolic representation of who we think we are.
Feeding, or the manipulation of form from form, is the most primary level of expressing a need to exist as form.
Hunger can be a controlling force. When we get hungry enough, we’ll eat just about anything. It is difficult, if not impossible in this state, to pay attention to the potential threat posed by what we intend to consume. Makes one wonder if the benefit of consuming outweighs the risk.
Feeding and being fed upon is how this dimension rewinds and reminds itself that no one is fully in charge. What is at the top of the food chain may also be at the bottom.
Our minds tend to block out that which they can’t symbolize.
Let’s just imagine creatures, not symbolically labeled, invisible to our sensory awareness and beyond detection of our technology, that feed on matter so minute, it can only be categorized as thought energy.
Feeders like ourselves expecting to keep living in the form they are in, need to feed as we do upon the products or byproducts of the natural world. Things that feed on us may be doing so at a microscopic level. Just because these creatures are in another dimension, doesn’t mean they can’t possibly live off the natural or organic world.
To the concept of feeding symbols – certainly my body knows its “language” – that of sensation, vibration, movement, etc. Food has its symbology, survival has its symbology, reason has its symbology – everything in my world has its own symbology. And at its core? Ambiguity!!!
Feeding Symbols! LOVE IT!!
re: creatures that feed on matter so minute…
The same could be said of creatures so large they don’t register on our senses or technology.
Perhaps our problem is not detection but willingness to detect. Like you said, if we can’t symbolize it, we deny its existence. Certainly you won’t find that which you won’t look for – because you don’t believe it could exist.
FFT (food for thought) might ask, “Why does it matter?” – just before he loses an arm to invisible bacteria… or feels the effect of a viral infection… đ
I agree that creatures can be too large to detect as well as too small. This may include MMEs. Tiny or huge creatures in mass quantities may be feeding on our refuse or discharge as we may be feeding on theirs. We are doing this already with life forms we have symbolized as plants here on earth. Our existence may be intertwined with theirs.