
To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed, it is where you travel to find yourself, often, paradoxically, by getting lost.*
Roger Deakin
Mystical vision is the way the soul sees.**
James Carse
A wood will do it, or
the openness of a beach unencumbered
by people or their “augmentations” –
But also a book or listening to someone’s story or gardening or
eyes closed and listening for 4′ 33″ …
Where do you go to become lost,
Yet know exactly where you are?
*Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks;
**James Carse’s Breakfast at the Victory.