Epiphanies, Individuation, and Flourishing.

So this is the point I want to make here: we take for granted the world and how it has been constructed for us through language and experience and then how we have constructed it through narrative. Yet sometimes language and those constructions drop away, and we find ourselves in an almost ‘magical’ world of the senses, a world in which boundaries seem to have collapsed and we feel a sense of oneness with where we are. For some of us, this might mean we ‘accidentally’ catch hold, visually, of a rising moon, or a rainbow (or even a motor car accident), or we might hear a piece of music with a different ear. Importantly, this can be the occasion of transformation, of profound change. Something we have not seen or experienced before happens. Sensory consciousness prevails as the body lets go its dependency on language for what and how we experience. —- Frances Gray, Epiphanies, Individuation, and Human Flourishing