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From Pg. 22:
..."deja vu", for which I have no explanation
One model of deja vu, sloppy, formative:
Sensorium affected by events
Clusters of events encoded and semantically punctuated
Encoding includes
Orthodox "time stamp", data relating to occurence of other events ("when")
Duration ("how long")
Uniqueness ("Nth occurence of sensory inputs encoded/punctuated such as to be considered 'the same as')
Given this structure, we can define deja vu as unorthodox assignment of time stamp and/or uniqueness.
And
...human beings keep reporting these rather extraordinary occurrences. I for one would be opposed to dismissing them simply because they don't happen to fit our particular paradigms. The metaphsyical plays an important role in many people's lives...
If only because life is lived in that excluded middle we must logically accept that which falls outside the boundaries of logic.
And
The mistake is in trying to equate the two or act as if it were necessary to create a fixed relationship between the sacred and the profane.
There is, of course, no such one-to-one relationship between the logical and the real. How could there be when logic starts by throwing out all that doesn't fit neatly into one of two boxes?
And
...[the Hopi exhibit] no feeling that life would be out of joint so long as the task remained incomplete.
Have I, then, picked up a little Hopi along the way? We just call it indolence, but Heinlein's Martian protagonist might call it "waiting for fullness." Did R.A.H. pull this from Hopi studies by way of Whorf, by way of Korzybski? Or is this attitude from his own dabbling in other religious and cultural traditions? Either way, I got it early, and it was a fit with other things I'd been taught, and it is now a source of conflict in me, for part of me is happy to wait for fullness, leaving things partly done, another part of me recognizes how at odds this puts me with the world around me.
To paraphrase from pg. 32-33, Hopi do not subscribe to the idea that time heals, whereas that's a staple of American/European thought. How 'bout Africans? Probably an unwise move from "well defined homogeneous group" to "heterogeneous cultures spanning one or more continents."
...as though the dam had a built in schedule, like the maturing of a sheep, or the ripening of corn.
Now *that's* a clear distinction.
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