THE TRANSLUCENT RIVER | 22 JANUARY 2026 | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Over the past four years of travel and work, I’ve begun to make clearer observations about the nature of life, the world, and the universe. Observations that touch on spiritual principles, but ones proven to me in a lived, real-world way. The most significant of these is what I’ve come to think of as the translucent river.
I imagine it as a dimension beyond physical reality; beyond the three dimensions of space, with time as the fourth, and this translucent river existing as a fifth. It’s a visual language I use for myself to describe what I’ve repeatedly witnessed; an undeniable plane in which events, places, and people are connected by invisible threads. These connections are not bound by time or distance, nor by rational sequencing. They simply exist, and at this point in my life, their existence feels undeniable.
This perception hasn’t arrived through doctrine or belief systems, but through a lifetime of observation. Through travel, long stretches of solitude, and the kind of meditative time that has marked both my most creative periods and the repetitive monotony of touring. I’ve encountered this pattern too many times to dismiss it. That experiential certainty, to me, carries more weight than anything a spiritual or religious text could offer.
With this perception comes a reverence for the underlying order and beauty of life, and a quiet trust in it. That trust doesn’t make me passive. If anything, I’ve come to believe that the translucent river requires participation. One has to live with enough clarity and calm to sense it, and enough courage to recognize it when it appears, and interact with it.
Staying in communion with this current has led me to some of the most meaningful experiences of my life: unexpected journeys, musical collaborations, romantic arcs, and lessons that only arrive through the right company at the right moment. It has brought me to real thresholds of growth and understanding; of myself, and of others. And it’s given me a belief that if I remain attentive to it, things will unfold as they’re meant to, in their proper way and time.
That belief brings a kind of peace, one that exists beyond anything offered by the first four dimensions.
