Friday, November 30, 2007

It is in the relationship between imagination and conceptuality that the human species originates; absent that relationship there is nothing human about species. Human experience originates in fantasy; the extra-fantastic world of Science Man is an abstraction. Science Man says, "This is the way the world is, free of fantasy." But Science Man has never experienced that world; it is just his ideal.

Science Man is like a head sticking out of the sand in which the rest of the body lies buried. Like his Father, Religious Man, he mistakes a part for the whole. Conceptual thought does not reveal the body of human experience, it just incorporates it; it can only reveal itself; "blinded by the light."

Symbolic language reveals what conceptual language conceals: the part of the body buried in the sand. " Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience of reality." Soren Kierkegaard. And an experience of reality is always and only fantastic. Why does the body hide from itself?

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