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There is quite a lot of visual metaphor in the New Testament, and in Christian mystics, such as Ekhart that I mentioned above. (Perhaps because I live in Japan) I have sometimes thought that Jesus was trying to get Abrahmics to turn Asian! E.g. "Our father who art in Heaven" was written with...

I like that. Maybe Vishnu, the humble God, caresses everyone's feet. Jesus washes feet and encourages everyone to do likewise https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A1-17&version=NIV The sinful woman washed Jesus' feet...

I think it is the visual field, as depicted by Ernst Mach and Douglas Harding, or the "I" (rather than the "me") in Henry James. Our consciousness. It is as Harding says, quoting Muhammad, closer than the veins in our neck. And yet indeed, we only have an inkling of it (@wil). In a sense, as...