Dancing with Dust Particles

Illuminating the Imperceptible

My earliest memory as a small child was that of dancing among sunlit particles in my family’s small living room. There was a time of day as the sun was setting where the streaming rays of light shone through one window. Floating, almost imperceptible, dust particles became illuminated. Alone in that place as I danced, I noticed that these luminous particles would swirl and become animated by my movements.

I sensed a darkness above and below these sunlit particles. From this, I was informed how to move in that immediate sunlit now. This was a connection to an infinite realm that I did not and could not understand. This darkness was not sinister, I only knew it was somehow there. It was like dwelling within a bubble of colorful dreaming. I was a child in a child’s body and yet I knew that I was not.

Dance was my first teacher. As the years went forth, this dancing alone became an interior secret communication. Hearing music anywhere at any moment took me to this inner sanctuary. Before my body moved, there was dance. I was in communion with creative imagination and this world was most real. My exterior self danced upon the floor while my internal awareness connected and moved with something other; much like those sunlit particles of dust.

This was an imperceptible dance.