The greening of the leaf. It comes late at 1000 feet. No cherry blossom just yet. A day of sun will bring it on. This is the cherry blossom of 2 or 3 years ago.
“First there is a mountain. Then there is no mountain. Then there is.” A poetic precis of enlightenment. A ‘phone conversation today bought up categorisation, Darwin, the Renaissance, maleness and autism. And in a broader sense, how the cognitive/intuitive understanding of primal societies morphed, particularly in Northern Mediterranean/Northern European cultures, into knowledge based upon empiricism, speciality and analysis.
How it is that such fragmentation of ideas and understanding, in science, religion, Art, have been promoted by a male mindset seeking to find knowledge in ever smaller compartments of investigation, which has had the effect of breaking reality into smaller and smaller and an ever greater number of shards with consequences for communication between related specialisations and “the big subjects” alike, with issues of power and control over minute dominions of practice. Are there not parallels between this behaviour and autism? A macrocosm of individual impairment of social communication and tightly defined areas of specialist knowledge.
It’s interesting that it’s in science, and quantum physics in particular, that there is a realisation that all is connected, that a holistic understanding of reality is necessary to comprehending the nature of all that makes up the whole. And just as fascinating that this seems to approach a return full circle to a more intuitive cognition of existence melded with a desire to understand, rather than just to know or believe. There was a mountain, then there was no mountain, and now there is.
There’s something here about masculinity and femininity. And something about the symbols that appear on old, or continental playing cards. The vessel or chalice that became “hearts”, and the sword that became “spades”. Containment compared with slicing and dicing. Holding together rather than breaking apart. Contemplation as opposed to dissection.
