A quote by Terence McKenna just popped into my head. I posted it before in another contest, but it’s worth a second round, I think. It’s from an essay titled “Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality“:
- Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a tranformative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, ‘that’s a bird, baby, that’s a bird,’ instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock irridescent transformative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words.
I feel like this is attacking the same issues I mentioned in my article, Myth, Ritual & Belief, in relation to how fixing yourself forever to one unchanging belief will effectively kill a story, and remove a vast panoply of possibilities from your perception.
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