The Essence of It All

When it comes down to it, PRISM asks one simple question “What do you choose to believe?” For belief is the seat of will and will is the seed of action. And in the end all that truly defines our life are the actions we have taken in the interlude between dream and dust.

Most of us at one time or another have encountered something or someone which completely contradicted our comfortable view of the world. When this has happened to you, how did you react?

Did you ignore it? Did you decry the event and all things associated with it? Did you doubt yourself or your own experience in order to maintain an unaltered and unassailable world view? Or did you embrace that which did not fit? Did you allow it to bore holes in the defenses you have spent your life building, to let the stale air out and new entrancing ethers back in.

In our daily lives we go about confident of our dominion over all we survey. Mostly oblivious to any greater pattern of life. Trapped in a lockstep of collective dogma and obsessive behaviors to the point that even the presence of a real miracle would have to be presented to us through accepted channels.

But life and existence are inherently mysterious, and by their nature miraculous. Religion, Philosophy, and Science exist as rough hewn tools specifically created by our still primitive tribal cultures to make some sense of or at least get a handle on these mysteries. Yet they have given us a sense of security and plenty of opportunity for discussion and division.

But what do we really know about existence? What can we hope to know?

Does an ant understand internal combustion or macro economics? Even if one of their number did suddenly grasp the vagaries of chemistry would it save him from the farmer’s poison? What would his understanding of physics and refraction do to protect him from the horrific infernal touch of a young boy with a magnifying glass on a sunny day.

And even if a single member of their colony somehow gazed skyward to take in the reckless giant above him, would this give him a complete picture of the human family, or the greater universe in which the child is himself only an infinitesimal spore in a rather recent and potentially short lived “outbreak” called humanity?

I offer that he might not understand it but he certainly might take action, and bite back.

 
 

Interviews

Selected Scene Explorations

  1. Opening Montage
  2. The Intruder
  3. Opposites Attract
  4. The Hospital
  5. The Patients
  6. First Impressons
  7. An Issue of Trust
  8. First Big Clue
  9. A Door is Opened
  10. Confronting the Witness
  11. Testing a theory
  12. Enter Mason
  13. The Conversation
  14. Leanna is Lost
  15. The Entity Forms a Plan
  16. Leanna's Call, Bill's Epiphany
  17. Only one of us can stay
  18. Resolution

Thoughts and Spooky Production Stories:

HInts and Inspirations.