Reposted by Alex Schweig
“The Jahili poem and ancient epics preserve another world for us, another mode of consciousness in which poets inhabit a shared matrix of existence with the world and its elements.”
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A Rupture in the History of Consciousness
Centuries of interpretation have separated the self from the world, but glimpses of an older mode of being can still be found, even in the most inward-looking modern literature