Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@W_Poulos @HarrisonGarlic1 The eyes tell. Are they intensive and full of light? Or empty and mechanical? "The eyes are not here / There are no eyes here / In this valley of dying stars / In this hollow valley / This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms" - Hollow Men, Eliot.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Aug 2023

@stephenrjmullan @lukeburgis 1/11 You’ve noticed! Yes, the Ayes have it. Some cultures hold that the light of the soul is filtered through our glance and, concomitantly, in depth, "souls connect at the meeting of the glance." Refining the directed glance, common practice in the world's transmission lineages.

The display (what we see) is dual. But the reality is identical. - Mircea Eliade
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The display (what we see) is dual. But the reality is identical. - Mircea Eliade

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor We walk among the trance-struck, their sight intact, their seeing gone, each gaze a vacant doorway. The eyes tell.Quoted by@pauljpastor We walk among the trance-struck, their sight intact, their seeing gone, each gaze a vacant doorway. The eyes tell.Quoted by@millinerd Thank you so much. Hmm, it just now occurs to me...can you recommend any field-defining texts on the metaphysics of the gaze? I'm not unfamiliar with the mode, but it's a specifically Christian corpus and practice I'm wholly unfamiliar with.