The good and the bad of this counter-reality, he told them, our “inner seeing,” was that it sometimes lifted debased fragments from the commodified world. We are all sieves, he said, and we catch and hold on to all sorts of things, and not just the images we want to return to. Take an inner trip, and it will not be just the beautiful and the sacred that you find. From the depths of my own mind might come a jingle I heard on the radio as a child, advertising tooth-whitening powder, or I might see Tintin’s dog, Milou. We pick up things along the way that are of no use at all. The trick, he said,
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