tassili n’ajjer (cave in algeria)
when the earliest shamans
emerged from the primordial mist
adorned in skins and skulls
with fists full of mushrooms
the dimensions flowed freely
like rivers cutting through the rock
after the younger dryas impact
our spines and chakras were aligned
to receive those dimensional outputs
magnetic bands of frequencies
flowering from the gravitational center of the universe
like a fractal mandala
shiva and shakti
creating and destroying everything all at once
bringing balance and purpose to the whole
but we became too focused
on the physical environment
overly busy avoiding predators
while hunting and gathering food
our powerful thoughts
became consumed with fear
bending our spines
and misaligning our chakras
filtering out the higher dimensions
hardening the density of physical 3d space
replacing balance with chaos
adjusting our bandwidth
away from the meridians
of the universal body
trapping us in the concrete filaments
of our devolving human minds
Dan Fijolek is a writer and poet from Longmont, Colorado. He has previously been published in Boulder Weekly & Jasper’s Folly Vol. 1.
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