The Third Script: Lucidity of Light, 2008, Point Reyes: Numina Books. p.28-29 

In contemplation and reflection of one’s life script a personal mythology reveals itself. In my personal myth, dream awareness—in particular, lucid dreaming—is the central force and source of creative inspiration. The Third Script is the way I express these internal events.

 

Many layers of meaning are found in The Third Script. The first, and most obvious, layer is that the name is inspired from the only book I chose to bring with me when I left my home country thirty-two years ago. Among all my books, The Third Script was the most enigmatic. I never returned to my birth-land, and The Third Script became a companion in many foreign lands.

 

The book, written by Persian author Nasseraldin Saheb-Zamani, examined the relationship between the 

great Persian poet, Rumi, and his mystic beloved, Shams. Through Shams’s sayings, Rumi’s poetry, and 

Saheb-Zamani’s psychological analysis and reflections, The Third Script weaves a complex depiction of how 

two individuals’ meeting and interactions can evoke a third space—an atmosphere filled with creative potential.

Such dynamism can be a trigger for great art, music, and poetry, and it can describe a path toward an 

invocation of the Absolute—the Essence or Love. The Third becomes the mystery, an invisible force, 

the catalyst for the unknown. This Third, for me, is also the expression of the relationship between the receptivity of the lucid mind and the creative force, the mystery. The passage that inspired me the most in the book was Shams saying:

 

That Calligrapher wrote in three scripts:

One he could read and everyone else

The second he could read but no one else!

The Third neither he nor anyone else could read!

That Third [script] is Myself!

 

“Shams” in Farsi means Sun, Light. The depth of the mystic’s script is often “unread” by others—even by the mystic! The self becomes a state of continuous change, from deconstruction to reconstruction, from being to 

non-being to being.

 

The Third Script series grew out of years of contemplation and experience into the nature of light within lucid dreaming and hypnagogic experiences. Inner light has multiple dimensions and attributes. In these dimensions, forms morph into particles of ephemeral visual language. In some cases oscillating light-lines speed up either instantly or gradually moving to a new level of awareness. Their speed becomes a vehicle of transformation expressing a quality of internal energetic space. Chaotic or peaceful, they become the manifestation of a state 

of mind. In Third Script paintings, the transformation of the alphabet into Light-Lines expresses the interplay between form and formlessness, the frequency of inner light and that of matter, the visible and the invisible.

 

This transformation is also seen in the frequency of lines in brain waves in one night of sleep, where dream imagery moves from a formal narrative and language into a space without content, or dreams, then back again into form. This cycle continues in waking. Whether aware of it or not, we are constantly emanating certain waves. We are walking lines with different frequencies and vibrations that are carried throughout waking and dreaming. Consciousness remains a continuum of flow from the creative waking mind into the dreaming mind, and inversely, from conscious dreaming into creation. The most scientific can be the most poetic!
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Fariba Bogzaran

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