we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything
we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything
We do not see nature or intelligence or human motivation or ideology as “it” is but only as our languages are. And our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In dreamwork, we are stepping into the imaginal borderlands to consciously participate with those images that shape us instead of allowing them to replicate autonomously. As we engage with our metaphors, we change the way we see the world. Like doubling the number of colours we can paint with, we develop a subtler and more complex palette for viewi
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Since analogies don’t come to us fully formed, we must tinker with and reformulate domain representations in order to establish workable mappings. Such re-representation and restructuring is a creative process that forces us to reconceptualize domains in a search for coherence.73 Playing with analogy and building analogs is a deeply creative, clari
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Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
Perspectivasystems-souls-society.comMetaphors are not tropes of poetic thought ‒ they are features of the world. Metaphors exist because the things in the world are intertwined.
Tom Cheetham • Imaginal Love
Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
From the never-ceasing flux around us, we carve entities out of space and out of time: people, places, things, events. We freeze them, turn them into words and concepts. We change those moving things into static things so that we can act on them with our minds.
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
Digital information is disembodied information. It is known rather than experienced. Converting it into experience requires integration.