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Notes on Invocation

This is a slightly different approach to the notion of soul mates. The conventional mystical paradigm goes something like this;

A soul, which exists separately from physical bodies, is created and split in two and each half sent to dwell in a man's body and a woman's body until they meet and fall in love, etc. etc. etc.

Invocation looks at this from the conventional paradigm of a physicist. The universe once existed as a single point. All the matter of the universe -- including the matter that comprises you and I, existed within an extremely dense sphere possibly as small as a pinhead.

It is at this point that physics breaks down. Laws make no sense any more. The universe begins to resemble nothing more than a great thought -- or, as I prefer to think of it -- a song.

Within Invocation the lovers exist within this tiny sphere -- 'the elemental bomb' -- snuggled together, they are nothing more than twilight, until they 'kiss' which is the spark, the passion, that ignites the big bang and ultimately ignites the universe spreading out from infinitely small to infinitely vast.

In the process the lovers are obviously separated, until after eons and eons they are finally configured in a form that comprises the essence of themselves as they existed within the primordial stew, at which time they meet, fall in love, and enjoy another twilight kiss.

Entropy wins however, and the lovers cannot remain configured (they die) and dissolve once again into atoms and energy scattered across a cosmos that now is contracting to the big crunch -- the point in time when all matter will reconvene at a single point -- when they will again re-unite, kiss, and the process begins again.

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