Maggie,
I really liked this metaphor too,
Julian Jaynes, in The Origin of Consciousness, uses a metaphor for the
difficulty of the "conscious" trying to see the workings of the unconscious,
and describes a flashlight searching for the dark. It will not succeed.
Everywhere it seeks, it finds light. (Jaynes, 1976, pg. 23)
I just wanted to share this Sufi saying:
I asked a child, walking with a candle, "From where comes that light?"
Instantly he blew it out. "Tell me where
it is gone -- then I will tell you where it came from." (Hasan of Basra)
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