Thread by @AlisonBlunt

1/6 Orland Bishop, "...if I come upon someone that's crying and I want to know why, what laws of physics should I use? To take out a ruler, measure how far the tears are dropping, the rate of the tears flowing?"
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"So the way we know it is, give that person a hug. And that ..."

2/6 ..."is a metaphysical choice. Because the context for really knowing has to be established at a level in my own feeling for the truthfulness of their reason for crying. And so there are certain things that yes, the laws of physics totally apply. And we can - ..." ...

3/6 ..."we've engineered some great things using that. But the dynamics of interaction, to where I get to know you as a person, transcends physics. It allows me to experience insight, that because of my longing to know, I gain access to something in both me and you..." ...

4/6 ..."that we shared, just like language. One can say, what part of our language is physical? Speech, what part of speech? You know, yes, I can hear the sound. But the sound is not the full context of speech. It's the meaning. So where does meaning - where's the meaning held?"

5/6 "Between us, in a super-conscious faculty that creates, actually creates the understanding for what you're saying. My attentiveness creates the understanding. It's not given in what you say. I create it."

6/6 "So these are realities that we've been in touch with since childhood, infancy, you know."
Quote from far-reaching conversation between Orland Bishop and Charles Eisenstein charleseisenstein.org/program/conver…