How to lose touch with reality

Words cannot handle global experiences well. Language breaks apart rich, complicated global experiences into relatively impoverished component parts.

[F]or the young child, language creates a wide gulf between a familiar nonverbal world of experience and a new world of words. This schism is confusing and at times painful. For the first time in its short life, a young child has to hold on two different versions of the same event. Life will now be lived more in parallel. The simple wholeness of experience has been broken, the verbal and non-verbal constructions of experience will live together all the same.

We come back down to earth and recontact that original ground which gave us our first footings and which has never actually disappared but has only been buried under a vainglorious and myopic view of languge. Weaning ourselves away from the thought that all thought is language-dependent, and equally, from language-dependent thought, we wean ourselves away from a basically object- or substance-tethered metaphysics. In turn, we afford ourselves the possibility of grasping the momentous significance of movement and change, and of attaining to a metaphysics quintessentially attuned to the dynamic nature of an animate world and animate forms. A process metaphysics accurately describes the natural world, the living forms that inhabit it, and the natural contours of life itself. Thinking in movement is not only coincident with the metaphysics, it is the methodological point of departure for its formulation.

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