INTELLECTUAL DEEP WEB
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This lecture explores the human relationship with nature, arguing that modern science has led us away from true knowledge of the universe. The speaker discusses the importance of innate understanding and the interconnectedness of nature and consciousness.
Kathleen Raine — 9 recordings in the archive.
The book: The Inner Journey of the Poet by Kathleen Raine.
If there is one theme upon which i upon which any human being should be able to speak without learning without authority other than our own senses and innate understanding it is surely nature for nature all that we perceive and of which we are ourselves a part and which is a part of us is what each is given along with life itself no need to be a poet or a physicist painter botanist astronomer hunter of animals gardener fishermen alchemist or magician weatherman assessor of minerals or physician no need to be literate or numerate it is enough to be a child the rest about a few of the countless ways we follow into that inexhaustible universe of marvels into which we are born never will we reach nature's frontiers never can we be elsewhere than at its center i have myself read countless books innumerable pages of human thoughts but in this attempt to approach nature i shall try at the outset not to remember but to forget these i shall not even cite lawrence van der post's african bushmen or the north american or australian indigenous people although these nature being their only literacy could tell more than perhaps any man of learning of nature and its many powers instead i shall try to begin by speaking not from any acquired knowledge much your little counts were nothing at all in this respect but certainly as the child i was the child each of us was born into this world without any of the adventitious aids of what we later in life call knowledge did not the learner thomas aquinas call his great work of theology so much straw in the light of that vision of reality itself which came to him at the end of his years of labor he spoke of a mystical vision i speak only of what every child sees who opens his eyes on this world but in the light of the morning sunshine falling on a leaf or raindrop whether on the loveliest of gardens or wild places or on a plastic container on a scrap heap i too would have to say that all i have studied is so much straw however much we have learned what is given to every child at birth unsought is incomparably immeasurably more given with life itself inseparable from what we are we…