The Meaning of Words

There's an ex-stasis in creativity found within poetry and the poetical aspects of everyday language that can reawaken us to this kind of connectedness. So Barfield looks at words, the etymology, the history of words. And he's very clear about how this is, right, it's a transformative experience. There's a felt change in consciousness that self after is both continuous and discontinuous from the self before the transformative experience. All that stuff we've been talking about with the sacred second self and aspiration.