That\u2019s how the later Ursula LeGuin described her work. I don\u2019t claim to know what sense she had of her line, but if we expand \u201creality\u201d as a concept to include every-one, and then include everyone to include the sentient life forms such as the snake-people on the fifth planet circling the giant start Betelgeuse\u2014don\u2019t laugh; who knows?\u2014then that\u2019s a whole lot of everyone\u2019s.<\/p>\n
So what if tere are snake-people on that planet, and also beings in whole other dimensions? That\u2019s pretty \u201cheavy\u201d\u2014to use a term from the 1970s (earlier?) for having extensive and profound implications\u2014, that\u2019s pretty weird, but, hey, maybe. Couldn\u2019t be, you say. Or maybe, could be. The real question is, \u201cDare we imagine?\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, I dare, and I\u2019m a highly educated fellow! Highly accredited by professional Boards! A \u201cpsychiatrist\u201d no less, supposedly an authority about what\u2019s crazy or not. But to be honest, I am not sure, except to say that those are pretty sure are… well, not crazy so much as limited. To consider that many people might find your thinking crazy isn\u2019t crazy.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the aforementioned ideas are imaginative, yes. Probably not true. My excuse is that I read a lot of science-fiction as a lad. So maybe so, kinda. But not \u201cI believe.\u201d Of course, there are lots of people\u2014most people\u2014who believe devoutly! Funny word, that: Devoutly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That\u2019s how the later Ursula LeGuin described her work. I don\u2019t claim to know what sense she had of her line, but if we expand \u201creality\u201d as a concept to include every-one, and then include everyone to include the sentient life forms such as the snake-people on the fifth planet circling the giant start Betelgeuse\u2014don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}