“What the Dark Teaches You That Sight Never Could”
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Title: Touching the Rock
Author: John M. Hull
Category: Philosophy & Big Ideas, Faith, Spirituality & Meaning, Health, Food & Nutrition, Memoirs & Life Stories
What happens when the world stops arriving all at once and starts arriving one thing at a time? John Hull lost his sight in his forties and kept a diary about what it's actually like inside the dark.
Sam and Sophie walk through Hull's sharp distinction between a world of surfaces and a world of sequence, where rain becomes radar and a room has to be assembled by hand and ear. They cover his refusal of the sentimental 'other senses sharpen' story, the precariousness of sound, the dissolving boundary between body and world, the second death of visual dreaming, and the beach rock that touches back.
This one is for anyone who has ever lost something and had to learn a new way of knowing. The takeaway: attention itself might be the deepest sense we have.
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00:00Blindness As A Different World00:43Surfaces Versus Sequence01:27Rain Becomes Radar02:02The Cost Of Attention03:02Body Boundaries And Second Death05:56The Rock That Touches Back
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