Further into the Invisible
| Using first the obvious senses, we have
explored the world. Then, using the extensions of those senses which we created with
science and technology, we have continued the exploration, entering realms which were
previously unknown, unguessed at, invisible. Evidence accumulates that we are at a place where a further extension takes place into new invisible territory. How? We are far from a specific, detailed answer. But the despair, anxiety, and formal recklessness apparent in recent art indicates that step one involves somehow getting the ego out of the way, or at least getting it to shut up for a while. If we do that, not once but consistently, we find that other information slowly becomes available which leads one, a step at a time, down various paths into new territory, invisible territory. (Science, unfortunately, has become such an entrenched way of thought, with such a vested interest in the present system, that its representatives resort to extreme, almost childish attacks on such forays.) This system of lenses may be thought of as the equivalent of Leeuwenhoek’s first, crude microscope lenses, giving him access to the invisible world of micro-organisms.
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