Electomagnetic things

”..Although thoughts are volatile, indestructible. They do interact with other thoughts to form patterns. In a way they are like electromagnetic species, only alive at other ranges of activity. As each person lives her life, aware say, of only the paintings foreground, each thought and feeling is projected out and onto the canvas of the psyche. This painting or worldview again is itself alive, though its terms of reality are different from yours.

Each worldview is so extensive that no one can see its enteririty at a glance, and no one can perceive it without being changed also. In this case the paining knows it is being viewed and it reacts as physical paintings, in your terms generally do not.

Going back to our analogy, this gallery is open all the time. You could conceivably stroll through it, surrounded by masterpieces and seeing nothing. These paintings or world view spring into visibility only under certain conditions. They are perceptive, these ‘paintings’, alert. They recognise in our passers by those who are of like mind or intent. They are aware of dreams or thoughts that complement their own existence…”

Introduction by Seth, The worldview of Paul Cézanne. page xii