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Re: Rocks?
Jul 18, 2006, 08:52
"It's not in your genes, it's not in the soil, it's not in the megaliths. It's in your mind. Which doesn't negate the significance of your beliefs, not at all. Inspiration is inspiration. But to think inspiration is somehow inherent in ancestry and homeplace is to deny most of the experiences that can foster it just as if not more effectively"

Thats a refreshing view of how we fall into easy ways of seeing the world. But what lies behind people's particular thinking, is also bound up in their education, reading, culture and "sense of place" which is defined by an allegiance to the particular land you were born in. The "mystical" feeling of belonging has no rationality, poetry often expresses itself through death, so that bones, churchyards and megalithic tombs get wrapped up in the metaphor of death, family and belonging. Most people "experience" something from visiting prehistoric stones and ancestry and death is just part of the fleeting thoughts of the unconscious mind... so having worked all that out, you are probably right....
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