Words of Stephen Harrodsburg Buhner:
“When we open our perceptual doors to see deeper into the world, we begin to enter another world entirely; we begin to leave the merely human world behind; we begin to see from the world’s point of view.
And the view from there is much, much different than the view from our cultural orientation, irrespective of our particular subculture.
Taking on that view, being able to see deeper into the meanings within material forms, does disturb the existing paradigm.
Simply by existing, by reflecting back to the culture something outside its frame of reference, those of us who perceive in such ways really do fairly spectacular damage to entrenched presumptions about the nature of reality.
But there is every reason to view this capacity as a crucial evolutionary adaptation, a capacity hardwired into all living organisms and which serves a specific purpose. Given the situation we find ourselves in, as individuals, as a culture, as a species, it is a capacity that is essential, for as Albert Einstein once said, 'We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them'.”
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
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