I was thinking of the title An Epistemology for Madness, because a radical, critical sophism was advised as the de facto horizon once a phenomenology presumed the synthetic apriori premise, “This mind does not distinguish between the intersubjective and not-intersubjective in appearance”. That premise advises learning to recognize the variety[1] of experiential frames which can… bla, bla.
Drugs are a foreign country…
[I wonder why there are 4 sides to a door].
[The complicated answer…
[A Midrash type answer: This world was conceived for the 7th day, just like anything is conceived for its final product. This is like a builder starting to plan his house on the requirement that it have a roof. But despite the primal role this requirement played in the creation of the finished, lived-in home, is not seen at each other part of the house when looking at each one.
On day One, sky and earth. on the Second day, waters here and there. On the Third, first time the land is a separate thing to water.
The Sefirot flow down from infinite like a river that births channels that birth streams and waterfalls. We look up from the land into the wave that moves ever forward, like a moon that is forever changing its shape.
Today is like the third day; old possibilities combine with new possibilities to become the present.
The world was imagined with a single line of chessed – the 7th sefira. Chessed folds into Tiferet and now into gevura: this is the day that is lived: it is like the gimmel, the letter of becoming (maturation and weaning); the land of possibilities brings life that grabs for the heavens.
There are not-7, not-6 sides to a door. So 5? There sort-of are 5 sides to a door: in-out. But sort-of, there are only 4 sides. And this is because we are walking through the door. Gimmel is the first letter that we can see, as we look up, that grows and becomes. So there are 4 sides, because we need 4 sides to build passages and their doors, as we move into chessed.
[Midrash for the same story of a bird that wanted to lead its children to the fruit tree].
[Midrash of the mad scientist who wanted to send a message through space using birds – like fireworks being sent into the sky before a wedding].
[1] Seeking expansion of genre that reveals the “newest appreciated” part of the mind
