Lens and Filters
(At the Mirrored Gate, part 3)
Like Emerson’s “Transparent Eyeball,” the pure lens is the neutral, objective witness, free of filters. Yet, being human, every shade of our seeing is filtered. It takes a step back to see the filter.
Even a purist discipline is also a kind of filter, a mode of being that may be characterized by, say, obsessive thought-loops about achievement, or social …