the moon's favors: First, you have to see it

2014/05/27

First, you have to see it

Woke up thinking and wrote down "First, you have to see it." Later, awake, I thought it was saying Campbell's "Consciousness, first; then, you." And remembered the internet meme I saw a few days ago -- image of a radio and something about (how did they put it?) mistaking our -- no, thinking that our thoughts come from us is like a radio thinking it thinks. Or something.

So -- the “universe is a hologram”?

How to think about thinking?

Is there some underlying constant, which we each reshape and expand? A metaphor here: Imagine, shape, expand: Carl Sagan: "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine