>From Notes on Thought and Vision:
Three states or manifestations of life: body, mind, over-mind.
Aim of men and women of highest development is equilibrium, balance,
growth of the three at once; brain without physical strength is a
manifestation of weakness, a disease comparable to cancerous growth or
tumour; body without reasonable amount of intellect is an empty fibrous
bundle of glands as ugly and little to be desired as some form of
elephantiasis or fatty-degeneracy; over-mind without the balance of the
other two is madness and a person so developed should have as much
respect as a reasonable maniac and no more.
*
That over-mind seems a cap, like water, transparent, fluid, yet with
definite body,contained in a definite space. It is like a closed
sea-plant, jelly fish or anemone.
Into that over-mind, thoughts pass and are visible like fish swimming
under clear water.
*
The centre of consciousness is either the brain or the love region of the
body.
...
For me, it was before the birth of my child that the jelly-fish
consciousness seemed to come definitely into the field or the realm of
the intellect or the brain.
...
The brain and the womb are both centres of vision, both equally important.
....
There is no way of arriving at the over-mind, except through the
intellect. To arrive at the world of over-mind any other way, is to be
the thief who climbs into the sheepfold.
*
Normal consciousness, pricks of everyday discomfort, jealousy and despair
and various forms of unhappiness that are the invariable accompaniment of
any true, deep relationship: all this may be symbolised by a thistle.
There are two ways of escaping the pain and despair of life, and of the
rarest, most subtle dangerous and ensnaring gift that life can bring us,
relationship with another person - love.
One way is to kill that love in one's heart. To kill love - to kill life.
The other way is to accept that love, to accept the snare, to accept the
pricks, the thistle.
To accept life - but that is dangerous.
It is also dangerous not to accept life.
And then much discussion about the place of love in vision: much of which
I find very interesting. But it is quite long and my fingers tire. I
feel bad excerpting so savagely, but I hope there's a hint here of what I
find interesting.
Best
Alison
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