Dear Susie and All,
Welcome back into the stream, the water's lovely!
Ah yes! But really to feel the stream, there is a need to view the picture
as a hole.
Warmest
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Goff <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 01 February 2007 00:58
Subject: "Feel that I know"
> "I look at the picture as a whole and feel that I 'know'
> from personal experience the material context"
>
>
> Dear Jack and everyone..
> I just want to pay attention to this line that you wrote.
>
> I want to slow down, and explore what that "knowing" is. I don't think we
> "know" enough about it and I think it is a potentially whole source of
human
> thought and ontology.
>
> When you say this, I connect with you, in understanding that sense of
> recognition - of experience that is on the one hand completely unique and
on
> the other inalienable from all human experience, like a wondrous cosmic
> tendril that winds through us, is of us and we make it what it is, across
> all time and geography even though our cultures of knowing would lose
sight
> of this extraordinary human right of existence.
>
> I am reminded of Alan's beautiful reference to Wordsworth in his
manuscript
> which I am currently reading:
>
> "In nature everything is distinct, yet nothing defined into absolute
> independent singleness"
>
> (Forgive me Alan for quoting your reference, I will be quoting you when I
am
> finished with the read!).
>
> So, in reference to this discussion about the power of images to
communicate
> knowledge, I wanted to dwell on knowledge not as information, but as this
> living stream of a thing we call experience, and note how rich a pool that
> is once we sense it "bodily" and culturally alive within and around us -
and
> to advocate for a significant turning towards understanding it and making
> "it" the ground in which we are....
>
> Logically (instinctively), it is perhaps the most accurate form of
knowledge
> with which to sense the state of our ecology (sociological and
environmental
> etc etc) - and potentially the road back/towards being in nature again.
>
> Lovely to be in the stream with you guys again
> Susie
>
> On 25/1/07 6:59 PM, "Jack Whitehead" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > ?
>
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