Your Mirror, Your Map, Your Vessel: The Power of Authoring the Self
This is a nine minute breakdown of the term “mainstream mystic” though Caroline Myss calls it, “Perception.” Elsewhere she calls it symbolic sight. That way of seeing and referring to archetypal structures.
Metacognition, my term.
Those little devils, metaphors.
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking.html
“We are the first generation bombarded with so many stories from so many ‘authorities,’ none of which are our own. The parable of the postmodern mind is the person surrounded by a media center: three television screens giving three sets of stories; fax machines bringing in other stories; newspapers providing still more stories. We are saturated with stories; we’re saturated with points of view. But the effect of being bombarded with all of these points of view is that we don’t have a point of view and we don’t have a story. We lose the continuity of our experiences; we become people who are written on from the outside.” Sam Keen
Do the images in this commercial make any sense to you once having re-read the poem? Did they even if you’ve never read the poem, or even heard of the poem? See the link below for a copy of Pioneer O Pioneer published in Leaves of Grass in 1900.
http://www.bartleby.com/142/153.html
What were they thinking?
Do you value your own voice? Has someone taken over your thoughts? Have your brains been sucked clean and replaced by someone else’s or something else?
