July 6, 2001

  • I had a strange and curious impression the other night after returning from a 5 mile run.  While I stretched and warmed down in my backyard, I was struck by what seemed to be a curious quality to the artificial lighting emanating from the houses in the neighborhood.  While I recognized the light as bona fide energy, it nevertheless had a shadow or material quality to it that seemed quite heavy, archaic, and even ignorant.  My impression during that heightened state of well-being (the post-run adrenalin and energy sense) was that the quality of light I was experiencing belonged only to a dismal present and not what someday, I hope, will become a more enlightened future.  The notion flashed through my mind that someday somebody is going to discover that the quality of light provided by our current artificial lighting is significantly substandard to natural lighting (or perhaps a drastically improved, yet uninvented artificial lighting) and that this has a measurable impact on our quality of life.  Specifically, I had a sense that the artificial lighting would be found to have made us dumber both intellectually and spiritually than we would otherwise had been nurtured solely by natural lighting.  This was a precise, but obviously currently, totally unfounded impression.


    Nevertheless, if true, a suggestible alternative would be to develop techniques to convey sunlight always from an aspect unshadowed (day) of the earth for our illumination needs.  Fiber optics, mirroring,  sunshine in a box?


    Is light just light to feed our vision?


    Or does the source and quality of light--sunlight, firelight, massive arrays of florescent light spanning the high ceilings of factories overhead--have an impact on our psychic vitality?

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