Theory, continued from July 6th
Exactly:
Stephen comments, "My first history professor noted that maybe the preponderance of 'miracles' in ages past isn't necessarily that they were more naive or superstitious, but that they were better equipped to recognize signs of the supernatural."
I don't think we can see the numinous because the ego sits like lead in the body.
It wants loosening.
In one of the caves in the Pyrenees is a long tunnel that one has to crawl and twist and squeeze through, leaving, loosing, losing the ego along the way fear and disorientation and at the end, lighted by oil lamp is a painting, 35,000 years old.
Bear in mind that in these ancient times, the expenditure of calories and the exploration of unknown places carried a much more real danger to the survival of the organism.
The explanation:
initiation?
The experience of terror and the loosening of proprioception opening us like from our shells?
Disorientation as opening.
I think when the elements grasp us,
the sun soaks us,
the body begs food,
the skin senses wind and the heat of those close,
when our ears feel beings move between the sound of the falls and our bodies,
for days, weeks--
then I wonder what we are keener to.
Still making a study of it.
Stephen comments, "My first history professor noted that maybe the preponderance of 'miracles' in ages past isn't necessarily that they were more naive or superstitious, but that they were better equipped to recognize signs of the supernatural."
I don't think we can see the numinous because the ego sits like lead in the body.
It wants loosening.
In one of the caves in the Pyrenees is a long tunnel that one has to crawl and twist and squeeze through, leaving, loosing, losing the ego along the way fear and disorientation and at the end, lighted by oil lamp is a painting, 35,000 years old.
Bear in mind that in these ancient times, the expenditure of calories and the exploration of unknown places carried a much more real danger to the survival of the organism.
The explanation:
initiation?
The experience of terror and the loosening of proprioception opening us like from our shells?
Disorientation as opening.
I think when the elements grasp us,
the sun soaks us,
the body begs food,
the skin senses wind and the heat of those close,
when our ears feel beings move between the sound of the falls and our bodies,
for days, weeks--
then I wonder what we are keener to.
Still making a study of it.