This essay is a masterpiece of the highest order. Highly subtle, subversive, imaginative, scholarly and intellectually sublime...a worldview reorienting work if you keep re-reading it and immersing yourself into this essay which dives deep into the mystery of consciousness and experience. One that takes multiple readings to grasp, and requires further meditation and reflection, but that's what makes it a masterpiece. Stephen R L Clark may be the world's greatest living philosopher.
After the sweatlodge a girl aged 9 came up to me and asked if I had seen the fairy. I said yes and to ask Peter about it to get confirmation and she did. Be open without criticism and you will have people and fairies share themselves and experiences with you. Kindness is one of the virtues of Christ, which us our Spirit. But the path starts with honesty. It's a much more enjoyable life just to know that fairies are real. Thank you for the words from Yeats. Inspiring!
You only need to be yourself and open to the experience. I have seen a fairy in a sweatlodge north of Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada just outside of Mississaga Provincial Park. I was at a weekend retreat run by elder Isaac Day, from Serpent River First Nation nearby, but he lives on Six Nations Reserve with his wife and children. On the last day of the sweatlodge a local Ojibway elder named Peter attended and I was next to him in the sweatlodge.
Peter spoke in Ojibway to the fairy hovering in front of him. I only saw blue wings that were just over 3 inches long and tapered at an angle much like Disney's Tinkerbell. The sweatlodge was pitch black and the wings glow with an internal blue light likely seen only when moving. I next felt a flutter in my chest and worried about where the fairy went. At the start of the next song Peter nudged me and behind his back in the translucent fish-skin shaker I saw a blue orb the sizeof a large marble
I am really gettin into this Matt! I have always felt affinity with fairies since being very young. My FAVE colour is a certain shade of green and it can make me go trancelike---LOL I have experienced seeing the deundes (fairies) on magic mushrooms. and i can tell you people: THEY ARE REAL? haha---no? so define 'real'. what IS consciousness? What IS matter? and remember BOTH the Church AND secular science or scientism respectively demonize and dismiss fairies, nature spirits!
@JAYDUBYAH29 What is neurochemistry and how is it related to your actual experience of the world and yourself, J? Occam was trying to preserve the supremacy of faith over reason with his razor. He wanted to avoid confusing divinity with designer, and so left god beyond reason.You offer it in support of your position, but the motive behind it was exactly opposite your own. If reality is entirely material and causal, there are no such things as fairies. But nor are their such things as persons.
@JAYDUBYAH29 I'm sorry J, but this seems contradictory to me. You say consciousness is ignorant of its own basis (and needs to be!). But you also claim scientists have uncovered the truth about consciousness, that it is all neurochemistry. It's a perfectly impossible thing to say. It's absurd, as far as I can tell. Your logic is off. Tweaking the brain does change consciousness, but that does not prove consciousness is produced ex nihilo inside the skull.
@0ThouArtThat0 everything that exists has a physical basis. there are no fairies because they are make believe, just like unicorns. persons on the other hand are more complex - technically there is no such "thing" as a person because what we experience as personhood is a kind of meta-meta representation of memories, thoughts, feelings, sensations etc all combined in a familiar pattern. but damage certain regions of the brain or administer enough of a certain chemical and all that changes.
@0ThouArtThat0 you miss the point: consciousness as a purely subjective affair (as it has been for most of our history) is ignorant of it's basis. this remains the case because of how the brain has evolved. HOWEVER - as we have learned more about the brain, we have become better able to study the phenomenon of consciousness objectively. just as with other subjects (the sun going around the earth for example) what appears to be the case subjectively (mindbody dualism) turns out to be false.
@0ThouArtThat0 neurochemistry is the "man behind the curtain" of consciousness. subjective experience is 100% ignorant of its own basis - this is a good thing in terms of our moment to moment functioning - but a bad thing in terms of our inability to accept the facts of what we are, as it makes no intuitive sense! how it relates to my actual experience is that it makes experience possible & colors it's every detail. tweak a neurotransmitter here, damage a brain region there & it all changes!
silly nonsense matt. :) poetic and fun, but seriously?! our moods have to with our own emotions and our relationships to others and the world, mediated of course (icky materialism to follow!) mediated by neurochemistry. per occam it is not necessary to postulate a supernatural spirit where we already have a naturalist explanation. all supernatural creatures have been imaginative (and often beautiful) metaphorical spaceholders for what were unknown causes - in this case of our moods.
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This essay is a masterpiece of the highest order. Highly subtle, subversive, imaginative, scholarly and intellectually sublime...a worldview reorienting work if you keep re-reading it and immersing yourself into this essay which dives deep into the mystery of consciousness and experience. One that takes multiple readings to grasp, and requires further meditation and reflection, but that's what makes it a masterpiece. Stephen R L Clark may be the world's greatest living philosopher.
:) Fergus.. "come away human child to the water & the wild with a faery hand in hand for the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand"
I love this! What is read needs to be heard more often!
After the sweatlodge a girl aged 9 came up to me and asked if I had seen the fairy. I said yes and to ask Peter about it to get confirmation and she did. Be open without criticism and you will have people and fairies share themselves and experiences with you. Kindness is one of the virtues of Christ, which us our Spirit. But the path starts with honesty. It's a much more enjoyable life just to know that fairies are real. Thank you for the words from Yeats. Inspiring!
Thanks for reading this. I love fairies, and i know that they exist. No doubt. They are within everything.
I like this article.
You only need to be yourself and open to the experience. I have seen a fairy in a sweatlodge north of Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada just outside of Mississaga Provincial Park. I was at a weekend retreat run by elder Isaac Day, from Serpent River First Nation nearby, but he lives on Six Nations Reserve with his wife and children. On the last day of the sweatlodge a local Ojibway elder named Peter attended and I was next to him in the sweatlodge.
Peter spoke in Ojibway to the fairy hovering in front of him. I only saw blue wings that were just over 3 inches long and tapered at an angle much like Disney's Tinkerbell. The sweatlodge was pitch black and the wings glow with an internal blue light likely seen only when moving. I next felt a flutter in my chest and worried about where the fairy went. At the start of the next song Peter nudged me and behind his back in the translucent fish-skin shaker I saw a blue orb the sizeof a large marble
The Inmendham response video should be epic.
I am really gettin into this Matt! I have always felt affinity with fairies since being very young. My FAVE colour is a certain shade of green and it can make me go trancelike---LOL
I have experienced seeing the deundes (fairies) on magic mushrooms. and i can tell you people: THEY ARE REAL?
haha---no? so define 'real'. what IS consciousness? What IS matter?
and remember BOTH the Church AND secular science or scientism respectively demonize and dismiss fairies, nature spirits!
@JAYDUBYAH29 What is neurochemistry and how is it related to your actual experience of the world and yourself, J? Occam was trying to preserve the supremacy of faith over reason with his razor. He wanted to avoid confusing divinity with designer, and so left god beyond reason.You offer it in support of your position, but the motive behind it was exactly opposite your own.
If reality is entirely material and causal, there are no such things as fairies. But nor are their such things as persons.
@JAYDUBYAH29 I think our civilization could use a bit of silly nonsense to go with its serious sense.
@JAYDUBYAH29 I'm sorry J, but this seems contradictory to me. You say consciousness is ignorant of its own basis (and needs to be!). But you also claim scientists have uncovered the truth about consciousness, that it is all neurochemistry. It's a perfectly impossible thing to say. It's absurd, as far as I can tell.
Your logic is off. Tweaking the brain does change consciousness, but that does not prove consciousness is produced ex nihilo inside the skull.
@zezt *the duendes
Tragic abstract. And the irrational thesis is a disservice to the topic. This person has no experience with fairies, Matt.
@0ThouArtThat0 everything that exists has a physical basis. there are no fairies because they are make believe, just like unicorns. persons on the other hand are more complex - technically there is no such "thing" as a person because what we experience as personhood is a kind of meta-meta representation of memories, thoughts, feelings, sensations etc all combined in a familiar pattern.
but damage certain regions of the brain or administer enough of a certain chemical and all that changes.
@0ThouArtThat0 you miss the point: consciousness as a purely subjective affair (as it has been for most of our history) is ignorant of it's basis. this remains the case because of how the brain has evolved. HOWEVER - as we have learned more about the brain, we have become better able to study the phenomenon of consciousness objectively. just as with other subjects (the sun going around the earth for example) what appears to be the case subjectively (mindbody dualism) turns out to be false.
@0ThouArtThat0 neurochemistry is the "man behind the curtain" of consciousness. subjective experience is 100% ignorant of its own basis - this is a good thing in terms of our moment to moment functioning - but a bad thing in terms of our inability to accept the facts of what we are, as it makes no intuitive sense!
how it relates to my actual experience is that it makes experience possible & colors it's every detail. tweak a neurotransmitter here, damage a brain region there & it all changes!
silly nonsense matt. :) poetic and fun, but seriously?! our moods have to with our own emotions and our relationships to others and the world, mediated of course (icky materialism to follow!) mediated by neurochemistry. per occam it is not necessary to postulate a supernatural spirit where we already have a naturalist explanation.
all supernatural creatures have been imaginative (and often beautiful) metaphorical spaceholders for what were unknown causes - in this case of our moods.