One of the finer replies I have ever received.

“Indeed, that is one part of what fascinates me so about your work. Most of your writings would fit in quite nicely with much of European thought before the scientific revolution (17th century) and the Enlightenment (18th century), the foundation of which was something that (for lack of a better word) I could call the pre-scientific worldview, episteme or paradigm that was shared through time and space by pretty much all traditional societies, most notably organicists understandings of reality (your pods). This is still the basic understanding or reality found, for example, officially in Catholic theology or homeopathy, but because of the paradigm of rationalism/scientism/intellectualism it is simply a language we’ve lost; we just can’t wrap our minds around it any longer. Similarly, the gist of this traditional logic can still be found in all systems of divination, although most western practitioners have no clue why or how these operate. Again, an unintelligible language. My current research is on the last time there was an attempt to refloat this logic of an organic understanding of reality. This was at the end of the 19th, early 20th century. A remarkable time that gave us things like socialism and a spectacular revival of mysticism, but the pod quickly degenerated into herd, community was swallowed by worship of authority, self by conformity, and thus we got total war, nationalism, consumerism, capitalism in sheep’s clothing…

In any case, what I find so promising is that so much wisdom can emerge (albeit gradually) by simply abandoning the cult of the rational, by jettisoning the modern, by relinquishing the scientific straightjacket. I have no patience for back-to-nature, noble-savage sentimentalism, and I think this should not be understood in terms of linear time, evolution, and history, of reverting to some primitive, primordial, original state that predates our Fall. Fleeing the modern is itself a modern obsession, and a rather toxic one at that. We don’t have to go back to anything, rather abandon an entire cosmology built around the notion that reality must be perceived narrowly through bits of the left hemisphere of our brains alone. In doing that there is somehow a predictable and readily identifiable reconnecting with something raw, timeless, and universal that overflows the individual and its atomization – something at which you seem to excel.”

— Alberto Cubillas