“The idea or model that our senses are internal is a one-winged bird whose actually absurd activities we were trained to confuse with flying. Without the world, there is nothing to sense and no reason to do so… and most of our senses are integrations from a vast plethora of origins. Perhaps this last word is more revealing than we might ever imagine. From »oriri, to rise, enlighten, to awaken alive.

But what I wish to highlight here is this: there is no objective perceiver and statistics are shockingly misleading precisely due to their derivations over populations. The world is intimate, relational, and makes astonishing use of all of its assets and origins… any time anything at all happens. Our ‘senses’ are informed by the sensing of others, distant and near at hand. This is the nature of sensing, and it is our nature to embody this fact, and the depths from which it rises to inform our minds and opinions.

Nearly all of us learn to sense with the wrong model of what sensing is and can become, and for this reason, we are not enlightened by our senses, but blinded by them — until we arrange a conversation with our origins, together and alone. This is the step we must take if our humanity is to be recovered from the ragged remains that presently stand in its stead as a faceless mimic of authenticity, power, insight, prodigy… and wonder.”

— an anonymous informant