an ongoing set of intentional sensual experiences to provide an appendix of examples as inspired by sensual ways of seeing, healing and engaging with the world
[...] The invisible world cannot be seen with the eyes of logic and reason. We must resurrect the child’s sense of innocence and rediscover primary, direct perception. A child explores textures, distinguishes colors, looks underneath stones and asks the why of everything. This is immediate, primary perception....When we engage the senses we achieve holistic perception of the world, so that touch, taste, hearing and sight no longer separate us from experience, but make us one with what we perceive. You smell a fragrance and become the fragrance, indivisible from it. This is not a poetic kind of communion. It is a deep understanding of our interconnectedness. For example, when a medicine woman dips her cup into the headwaters of the Amazon, she doesn’t think, Ah, now this water is mine. Instead she observes, Now the Amazon flows through me.