Like a weird sort of elephant, I think the being-in/of-unity once walked amongst us. In the wake of its apparent departure, we have concocted many bizarre and conflicting stories about these matters.

Yet when it left our proximity, I suspect its destination was not ‘afar’ but ‘within’; it disappeared not into the distance, where we too often seek it, but into the depths of ourselves.

And thus it is that those who seek afar are often disappointed, but those who follow the strange footprints within eventually see the tail, the huge floppy ears… and one day hear ‘in person’ the astonishing trumpeting that has secretly become our very heart.