Alchemy

If, therefore, we forget, you see, that black and white are inseparable
And that existence is constituted equivalently by being and non-being
Then we get scared, and we have to play a game called
Oh-ho, black might win
And once we get into the fear that black, the negative side, might win
We are compelled to play the game, but white must win
And from that start all our troubles
Because, you see, the human awareness is a very odd mechanism
That is to say, we have, as a species, specialized in a certain kind of awareness
Which we call conscious attention
And by this we have the faculty of examining the details of life very closely

Living a sacrifice, die to myself every day
Never mind, un-divide, watch it slide into place
Perfect in time, all unfolding divenly,
Entwine and erase, free my mind from the dregs
Elevate me aligned with the grain
Feel the pull of the tide, I untie from the weight
Let me take to the sky, lead me safe
Let me take to the sky, lead me safe

Aim for a sepulcher, ride for a fall
Building a monument, nothing at all
Leaving my legacy, cry to the sky
Losing my mind, I don't even know why
Hope looking back, I can make sense of life
But for now I'll keep moving, there's no end in sight
Look past the lines, see the cure underlies
Take a deep breath, pull myself up and dive

The price, which we pay for specialization in conscious attention
It's ignorance, of everything outside its field
I would rather say ignorance than ignorance
Because, if you concentrate on a figure, you tend to ignore the background
You tend, therefore, to see the world in a disintegrated aspect
You take separate things and events seriously
Imagining that these really do exist
And actually, they have the same kind of existence
As an individual's interpretation of the Rorschach blot
They're what you make out of it
In fact, our physical world is a system of inseparable differences