Another drop-dead gorgeous sunrise on Harris Creek this morning. The geese have been huddled, waiting, and now seem relieved that it happened again. Jesus says, "I am in the world, but not of it." The geese are of the natural world; I am in it but not of it. The writer of words is unnatural.

The person is not identical with the four-dimensional body. You can't actually measure a face, that is, the measurements do not reveal the person. When I think about it, I find it extremely difficult to locate myself in this world in which I find myself. I am not inside my body, but neither am I outside it. Nevertheless, in my experience so far, we go everywhere together. The best idea that I can come up with is that myself and mybody are analogs.

The person is fantastic, made out of metaphors, not matter. The body that is of nature is a numerical construct, the person is a construct of words. Metaphors are not a by-product of mathematics, the person is not a by product of the brain. From the beginning, there are two bodies of language, which in the process of mutual incorporation, constitute the "experience of reality." As experience, the real and the fantastic are inseparable.

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?

How is it that a natural animal comes to perform unnatural acts? And how is it that one species of all the species on Earth is culpable? These are questions that present themselves to me in the solitude of my hermitage. This tapping in the early morning is the way in which I turn them over in my mouth, without ever actually swallowing them or spitting them out.

The public pronouncement is that humans are responsible for the warming of the planet Earth. The human species is just one species that has evolved since the origin of species, since the beginning of the process of speciation. Humans are not responsible for evolution, they are, rather, a product of it. Isn't the whole process natural? Aren't humans just as natural as they can be?

As Science Man tells the story, humans are natural creatures and every act that a human performs is a natural act. The body of Science Man's "nature" is a corporate body; nature is the inferentially largest organism. The organism is a conceptual structure that evolves over time, a structure that maintains itself in opposition to the forces of disorganization. There is no crime or punishment here; there is no morality, no responsibility, no drama.

Unfortunately, or, fortunately, depending on guilt or innocence, the human organism finds itself plugged into an unnatural machine called language. The drama is artifice an artificial representation of natural evolution, starring the human species. At some point in the time-line of natural evolution, one conceptual organism, fell into history, into a body of metaphors. Metaphors are unnatural.

The human experience is partially unnatural; guilt and innocence are artifical constructs and so the guilty party is also artifical. The artifice does not evolve from the natural body, images do not evolve from concepts, rather, in the case of humans, the natural and the artifical constitute one corporate body, a "genuine two-in-one." The animal is human when it incorporates metaphor.