swirl of illusion

Verbal language is over-rated. It divides us from our creatural selves.
Plato held the thesis that our senses mislead us.
Aristotle held that appearance is central to identity and truth.
The West argues that our senses are less reliable than script, The Word is truth.
It is odd that writing, so seemingly neutral, turned the pictogram----holding two identities----into stylized abstracts, distanced from their organic origins. (This distance is increased even further when we no longer "draw" the letters, ink on paper.)
Indo-European beliefs maintain that impressions are but a swirl of illusion. All "world religions" divorce themselves from chthonic centering and in so doing, reject the earth as home...wild animals are relegated to an inferior world, corresponding to our instinctive psyche, repudiated as a lesser phenomena.
Wild Animals had been our archetypes, immemorial mentors, like dream bearers, protecting the mind from schism. Taking us from wholeness and wholesomeness we wither.
If we insist that we are the center of a narcissitic cosmos, dividing us from the truth of mulitplicity and metamorphosis both without and within we colapse in upon a smallness of mind.
All true wholeness is plurality.
Verbal language is flat, foolishly rational, rigid and right-handed.
Visual language is boundless, immense, varied, alive and connected to all life and beyond.

It is the triumph over the foible of expectation over observation, when experience has primacy. This is the self-challenge: Are we and our perceptions what we *want* or expect them to be...and if they are, do we then, scrutinize them, at least slightly more than we would do, otherwise? To insure that our self-serving bias isn't the thumb on the scale?


Sometimes, however, it is more beautiful to embrace the error...

I love the way people's names hint at their professions. (And the way many names came from professions) Mike is mic and Pollan is pollen. Speak into the microphone and pollinate fertile minds. A weird*word echo occupation to name to occupation. How many people practice their names because of subliminal influence?

Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
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A Q. and A. with the author Michael Pollan, whose new book "Food Rules" offers 64 ways to improve your eating habits.


Weird: from Old English wyrd (“‘fate, destiny’”), through weohrtan (“‘to become’”).

Theory in science is much more substantive than crackpots want you to think.

Those who promote Intelligent Design----want to steal the credibility of science. Credibility in science is rigorously tested, not granting favoritism.

Reading THE CREATORS

----DANIEL J. BOORSTIN

The Birth of the Spectator: From Ritual to Drama.

Songs to Dionysus would bring back spring. Ritual was insurance against spring frost, but in every man there was a maenad, dissatisfied with stale rhythm.

Everyone was twice born, torn between wish for the familiar return and hope for the intoxicating new.