Ponderation momentation :) What Owen Barfield calls original participation, what Karl Jaspers calls pre-axial, and what Ken Wilber calls pre-rational all describe an earlier, simpler consciousness that knows reality intuitively and immediately, without so many mental filters. Simply by watching the sky, birds, trees, seasons, darkness, and light, people knew they belonged to Something Bigger. And even better, they lived in an enchanted universe where everything else belonged too. So called primitive peoples often knew this by listening, observing, and living inside of nature. They didnt have all the distractions that we have, of course. The natural cycles of darkness and light, growth and death, winter and spring--which were everywhere all the time--were their teachers. -Richard Rohr
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:21:59 +0000
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