Sublime

I will wrest the garden from the hands of the gods and order it anew so that it serves only my growth, and that will be good. And because these things are good, they must be done at any cost.

Conformist-Amber consciousness develops a deeper awareness of other people’s feelings and perceptions.

Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation. Hoel grows expert at the fight.

all connected in this moment of casting the yarrow stalks to select the exact wisdom appropriate in a book begun in the thirtieth century B.C.

there is no all-knowing central planner supervising the thousands and thousands of worker bees in a colony. The work of a hive is instead governed collectively by the workers themselves, each one an alert individual making tours of inspection looking for things to do and acting on her own to serve the community.

If I could only have one teaching tool, it would be the updated cave allegory, (or, better yet, the Wachowski brothers’ cave allegory, The Matrix). Almost any aspect of the journey of awakening can be explained within the framework of the cinema, and on the aisle that leads to the exit. Of course, I’ve taken a number of liberties with the analogy,

“You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”

Kelly, Kevin. Out of Control. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Each one volunteers to be eaten, so others might be spread far afield.