2 DISCONNECTED
Seeing from Another Perspective
Have you ever watched one of those “eagle cams”? Where a camera is mounted high in the branches of a tree, pointed at an eagle’s nest so that viewers can watch the birth cycle and raising of baby eagle chicks. The first time I tuned in I felt like I was spying. When I noticed that 12 other people were watching simultaneously, new layers of spying were revealed. Here we were all peering anonymously into the bird’s nest, and we had no idea who each other was. I wondered where these viewers were in the world, what motivated them to watch, how long they’d been tuned in (A minute? An hour?) or even how they might be watching. Perhaps from bed, or sitting on the toilet. They could be at a dinner table checking out of a conversation or sitting in a restaurant alone. Who could know? Yet here we were sharing this real-life moment, at least the real life of the birds in the nest. The real-time reality of the viewers was a mystery that could never be solved.
My thoughts shifted to the birds and how they had absolutely no conception of this live 12-person audience. Not only that, but the camera was sitting right there. A foreign object mounted to the tree in front of their face–and they didn’t pay it any attention if they noticed it at all. How could they know what it was, the purpose it served, and what it was a portal to?
What could exist in our reality–sitting right in front of our faces–that is a portal to another dimension, one of which we have no conception?
