“As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena. These have slowly lost their symbolic implications. Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree is the life principle of a man, no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants, and animals, nor does he speak to them believing they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.”
This whole essay was very well written and thought provoking. Beyond the last paragraph, this section really has my muses attention.
"Hence, it might be posited that we ourselves are the doppelgänger, the dim, mirror-image. If we follow Plato’s metaphor, we are like flower-puppets descending into the world, with our roots raising from our heads into heaven. A vision shared by the blind man at Bethesda, who, after being over-cured by Christ, “looked up and said, ‘I see men like trees, walking.’” (Mark 8:24)"
As another collative data point, KA as physical voice seems similar to the Vedic concept of Sruti, "things heard", received knowledge.
Beneficial contact with that "most sovereign part of ourselves" is the only true way to tell "copy from original." Hence the constructed false Double World.
Where does an acolyte search to obtain a copy of Fort's 'X'?
There are only excerpts floating around in various biographies. As far as I know, Fort destroyed the original after he failed to find a publisher. It appears he decided to encode his message in the "Fortean style," an omnium-gatherum pointing towards the orthogonal dimension.
“As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena. These have slowly lost their symbolic implications. Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree is the life principle of a man, no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants, and animals, nor does he speak to them believing they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.”
This whole essay was very well written and thought provoking. Beyond the last paragraph, this section really has my muses attention.
"Hence, it might be posited that we ourselves are the doppelgänger, the dim, mirror-image. If we follow Plato’s metaphor, we are like flower-puppets descending into the world, with our roots raising from our heads into heaven. A vision shared by the blind man at Bethesda, who, after being over-cured by Christ, “looked up and said, ‘I see men like trees, walking.’” (Mark 8:24)"
Thanks.
Love this one. Inspired.
As another collative data point, KA as physical voice seems similar to the Vedic concept of Sruti, "things heard", received knowledge.
Beneficial contact with that "most sovereign part of ourselves" is the only true way to tell "copy from original." Hence the constructed false Double World.
Where does an acolyte search to obtain a copy of Fort's 'X'?
There are only excerpts floating around in various biographies. As far as I know, Fort destroyed the original after he failed to find a publisher. It appears he decided to encode his message in the "Fortean style," an omnium-gatherum pointing towards the orthogonal dimension.
just fantastic writing - bravo schwab
Excellent as always. Reminded me of Eliade's worldview in some aspects.
I enjoyed this very much. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥𓁨