Uit de leeszaal (51)

‘If the trend toward specialisation in science is defined as knowing more and more about less and less, then this is its logical conclusion.
Everything you always wanted to know about nothing.
It began as an essay on experience of the ineffable, but grew, as wind will, to have a life of its own. As it gathered strength, drawing on surprising resources, it became apparent that wind is far from hollow. It is the most vital of metaphors. (…)
All wind’s properties are borrowed. Our knowledge of it comes at secondhand, but it comes strongly. And this combination of a force that cannot be apprehended, but nevertheless has an undeniable existence, was our first experience of the spiritual. A crack in the cosmos that widened to let the tide of consciousness flow through.’
[Lyall Watson, Heaven’s Breath, p. 7-8.]