I am reading a book called the Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram. To me, the fact that somehow we are linked to nature and the energy of the world makes complete sense but to define it so beautifully as this book does just brings so much joy to my every day. It describes how in the ancient time human knowledge of nature (animals, plants, elements) were of great importance to live a holistic life, but since we started defining things and creating languages creating barriers and laziness to the soul and mind, we are now left with nothing but a huge wall between us and nature. Now we struggle to reconnect to the original language of the earth and have lost the mystic powers that really led us to being higher human beings. Anyways, in this book he quotes Plato from Phaedrus...
"If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls, they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves but by means of external marks" Phaedrus 274a
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