Glimpses of a Greater Reality

Glimpses of a Greater Reality

Every family has one story: the grandmother with dementia who sat up in bed, looked at the corner of the room, and greeted her long-dead husband by name hours before she died. Or the phone call you somehow knew was coming, with the exact person and the exact words. These stories get told quietly, then filed away, because the world we were educated into has no drawer for them. The piece argues that William James took these “one white crow” cases seriously, and that once consciousness is treated as fundamental, these strange moments stop looking like isolated embarrassments and start looking like a pattern.

Gobble's Take: Sometimes the weirdest thing isn’t the story — it’s how fast people are trained to shelve it. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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