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As Johnson puts it, “Humans the world over find themselves, consciously or subconsciously, believing that we live in a just world or a moral universe, where people are supposed to get what they deserve. Our brains are wired such that we cannot help but search for meaning in the randomness of life.”
Why Humans Find It Hard to Do Away With Religion
newstatesman.com
The biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, observes that the indigenous Potawatomi language is rich in verb forms that attribute aliveness to the more-than-human world. The word for "hill," for example, is a verb: to be a hill. Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
The nothingness of Black Rock, Larry relates, makes anything that is seem more intensely real. This became true of the Man, another reason people kept coming back. “Something so very large and so startlingly like ourselves just seemed numinous,” he explains. “It was a breathtaking thing. And who is not affected by oceanic space? Only someone with an imaginative disability.”
This Is Burning Man
Brian Doherty
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