The metaphors the thing,
That will catch the Conscience of the Ding(an sich)..
very precise post, thanks,Joseph
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at 10:55AM, Daniel Mac Lean E.
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Hi Stefan, this is the realm of metaphor and imagination. We can imagine having individual souls connected to greater souls with luminous fibers, and the cause and effect traveling through this wires. Or we could imagine a soul as being connected with many individuals, as Hellinger says, “we don`t have souls, is the soul that has us” Or we could imagine “connection” as a tuning with sort of waves. Does a radio have a wave and this wave connects to the greater wave of the radio station? Or rather the Wave is everywhere and radios tune with it? you see, since language is metaphorically structured, you can only understand things in terms of other things. Souls as things, as waves, as colors, as presences, as voices in your head, as sensations. Now, the choosing of one or other metaphor bear different consequences. That is why we care so much for words in FCs. If you tell a mother to say to the aborted child, “I aborted you” or “! ;I kil! led you” is very different. If you think YOU have a soul or if you think you are had by a soul, different actions and feelings and consequences come from each. The more personal power(Castaneda) one has, the better metaphors one chooses, in the sense that they will lead to more power. Strength, in Hellinger’s words.
Cheers,
Daniel.
