Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Our Bodies Are Wild, the Unconscious Our Wilderness Areas


[Girl in Shadow - Leemarie Gaimari Bonk]

The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us. There are more things in the mind, in the imagination, than “you” can keep track of—thoughts, memories, images, angers, delights, rise unbidden. The depths of mind, the unconscious, are our inner wilderness areas, and that is where a bobcat is right now. I do not mean personal bobcats in personal psyches, but the bobcat that roams from dream to dream.
-Gary Snyder, The Etiquette of Freedom