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Muir, John - John of the Mountains - Reality is not what we perceive
Identifier
029356
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
During his first summer in the Sierra as a shepherd, Muir wrote field notes that emphasized the role that the senses play in human perceptions of the environment. According to Williams, he speculated that the world was an unchanging entity that was interpreted firstly through the senses, and then by perception
A description of the experience
John of the Mountains The Unpublished Journals of John Muir – January 6th
If the creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed