One evening in the winter of 1969, the author Philip Pullman had a transcendent experience on the Charing Cross Road.
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This week, I’ve been researching an ancient mnemonic technique called ‘the mind palace’, where people imprint a real or imagined building onto their memory - a palace, a mansion, a church, even a whole street - and then fill it with striking images, to which they attach bits of information they want to remember.
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In my review of Sam Harris’ Waking Up two weeks ago, I wrote this sentence: "Spiritual experiences tell us something about the cosmos,...the experience of infinite loving-consciousness is a glimpse of the very ground of being, also sometimes called God, Brahman, Allah, the Logos, the Tao, the Buddha-realm."
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We love superhero comics and movies partly because they re-connect us to our animist part when everything was full of god’, which could infuse us with their power for good or evil. Animation is animism re-animated.
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