“SEEING THROUGH” First there is the psychological moment, a moment of reflection, wonder, puzzlement, initiated by the soul which intervenes and countervails what we are in the midst of doing, hearing, reading, watching. With slow suspicion or sudden insight we move through the apparent to the less apparent. We use metaphors of light—a little flicker, a slow dawning, and a lightning flash—as things become clarified. When the clarity has itself become obvious and transparent, there seems to grow within it a new darkness, a new question or doubt, requiring a new act of insight penetrating again toward the less apparent. —James Hillman Explanation of above by Mary Watkins.. ...breaking the norms of knowing by “seeing through” is fundamentally related to breaking the oppressive aspects of human existence. When ideas are not seen through, the sense of reality they spawn is experienced as natural and inevitable. It is the process of seeing through that liberates us to create with ideas rather than merely be a victim of them. This seeing through is never done once and for all, but is a continual process. Hillman calls us to situate our ideas and practices within the historical and cultural context from which they arise, to see each idea as one perspective among many—each with its own history and consequences.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:58:20 +0000
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