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Re: Unexplained uneasy feeling
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"Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?"



Ah, there’s the rub, because Banquo assumes that *reason* is the baseline for normality, and the ‘insane root’ is the jailer. We could equally argue that reason is the jailor, the jailor who so often takes other forms of perception prisoner.

Reason is very much the product of the Western mind. Many non-Western cultures had (have) little truck with it. Why does a piece of string have only one end for example? The Western mind will try to rationalise the question so that it can arrive at a rational answer - or refute the question as being irrational. That’s a closed door, a room looped and locked with its occupant forever trying to find a way out through the locked door... never realizing that, although the door is locked, it’s actually without hinges :-)


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7th July 2011ce
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