“What must you do? It is impossible to answer such a question. So the answer is, for example, study all the of the ancient Greek words for seeing, sight, and features of experience related to these words. Compose an elegant essay on these, not as to a teacher, but as to a lover or angel. Then, proceed to Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chinese, and so on… as you do so, you will discover that those around you are not only ‘not seeing’, they have no idea what seeing is, means, or ‘does’ — in fact, they have been removed from seeing by exposure to language that neither preserves nor conveys the many delicate shades of actual relation and experience involved in these phenomenon.

And since -all- of these ‘lost seeing words’ support and inform the character, activity and potentials of the intimate inward universes of our creativity, thought, and intelligence… as they disappear into the flat utility of the English word ‘see’, our hope of insight, awareness, intelligence… transentience… goes with them. Thus, to restore these words is to restore the mind’s wings.

Let us do so with all due alacrity, and as we do, let us retrieve our brothers and sisters from the abyss of a language too blind to see with, and establish in our lives and experience both languages and ways of relating with them that act as the assets we have long pretended them to be.

We can restore and advance our intelligence and our relational excellence only if our tools are tools and not masters, and only if our masters … as one might suggest in the common vernacular… aren’t tools.”

— an anonymous informant