Ep: 123: Splitting the Atom, Dividing the World
Young Heretics
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The Art of Interpenetration
Barfield's book is about the nature of our perceptions and our relationship to reality. The artist gives you only a certain tableau, right? That is, how the phenomenon might affect you if you were standing in a certain position. But it doesn't give you the whole of the thing, right? And so barfield says, ok, so let's just take that one thing,right? Think of a rainbow in the sky and ask if it's really there. A he says, we'll consider the rainbow. And now, says barfield, look at a tree. It is very different from a rainbow. If you approach it, it will still be there. Moreover, in
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