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25 Apr 2025, 09:42
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An alder leaf, loosened by wind, is drifting out with the tide. As it drifts, it bumps into the slender leg of a great blue heron staring intently through the rippled surface, then drifts on. The heron raises one leg out of the water and replaces it, a single step. As I watch, I, too, am drawn into the spread of silence. Slowly a bank of cloud approaches, slipping its bulged and billowing texture over the earth, folding the heron and the alder trees and my gazing body into the depths of a vast breathing being, enfolding us all within a common flesh, a common story now bursting with rain.
Which of the following, if true, would most strongly support the claim that the observer’s experience reflects a moment of existential merging with the natural world?
(A) The observer later describes the scene using terms typically reserved for bodily sensations.
(B) The observer later writes that they felt a brief but intense awareness of being watched by the heron.
(C) The observer returns to the same spot months later but no longer feels the same connection.
(D) The observer describes their body and the landscape as being enclosed by the same physical force.
(E) The observer compares the experience to moments of emotional vulnerability shared with other people.
(A) The observer later describes the scene using terms typically reserved for bodily sensations.
(B) The observer later writes that they felt a brief but intense awareness of being watched by the heron.
(C) The observer returns to the same spot months later but no longer feels the same connection.
(D) The observer describes their body and the landscape as being enclosed by the same physical force.
(E) The observer compares the experience to moments of emotional vulnerability shared with other people.
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26 Apr 2025, 01:39
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Can anyone explain why b is wrong
27 Apr 2025, 06:39
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(B) The observer later writes that they felt a brief but intense awareness of being watched by the heron.
This sets up a subject-object duality: the heron is watching, the observer is being watched.
That implies separateness, not merging.
This sets up a subject-object duality: the heron is watching, the observer is being watched.
That implies separateness, not merging.
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