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Walking
up the steep road again
to the Vedanta Temple,
I stop at the bell and feel inside.
Hollow; no clapper.
On
the basalt faces of isolated cliffs, the brick walls
city buildings, on peeling paint and plaster, ancient
symbols are disintegrating. Even unbiodegradable remnants
floating in foamy seas will
someday be digested by something not yet known.
If "the
doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose
existence is independent of human consciousness
turns out to be in conflict with quantum
mechanics and with the
facts established by experiment," what about the
unconscious made
either from tree trunks sunk vertically into the ground
or from woven branches covered
with mud. The gables at each end were supported by a large
beam leaning against the ridge of the roof. The roof itself
was made from timber beams with reed thatch which
can't be rived from consciousness? How does it affect
the objects
we observe?
With every
hector of this planet, in every sector of this universe, in one
form or another, is where we actually live.
While horizons
groan under the weight of "investment properties,"
and door mats
stain with the blood of foreclosures, psyches slip
naturally through the walls of dogmas holding them
in.
"People were placing
their hands on the cave walls, which were probably a
'membrane' between them and the spirit realm into which
the cave itself
led." [D. Lewis-Williams & D. Pierce, Inside
the Neolithic Mind. London, 2005.]
Like
praying at a wall, or meditating facing a wall,
the critic Geoff Dyer wrote of celebrity photographer
Richard Avedon,
"He never lost
his the appetite for discovery,
but he kept discovering the
same thing."
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doctrine: -B. d'Espagnat, "The Quantum Theory and Reality." Scientific
American, November 1979.
made either from: P. Abbot, "The Neolithic, or New Stone
Age." http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland
/past/pre_ norman_ history/neolithic_age.html
He never lost: G. Dyer, “Richard Avedon.” Otherwise
Known as the Human Condition. Minneapolis, 2011.
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