updated the posts out of respect for your comment.
Those whales are awesome and majestic, and you’re right, they are terrifying (or, at least, they can be when you’re in a particular mood, or if they’re right on top of you). I was just not connecting with that aspect when I looked at the pictures today.
reminds me of how ‘awesome’ and ‘aw(e)ful’ both derive from that same root.
Incidentally, the fear aspect of awe was really uncovered for me when I first started running Terminus2. It wasn’t dramatic in the sense of huddling on the floor in my room or something. But I found that I was repeatedly drawn to dark, deep, and frightening themes for a while. Then it subsided. I think it may have been the combination of Mind’s Eye and Terminus2. These things are pretty idiosyncratic, so that may have just been something that was kind of buried in my own mind.
Hmm…I think that Mind’s Eye may have had that kind of archeological function in my mind. I hadn’t quite thought of that before now. It was less about generating pictures and more about carrying me deeper down into the structure of my mind. (hmm…maybe because it’s at those deeper levels where my mental imagery is more active. makes you think.)
p.s. (for the record, the whales are probably much gentler than the people in the boat.
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