Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.