Gregory Bateson Quote

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.


Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred (ed. MacMillan Publishing Company, 1987)


There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to ...

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to ...

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to ...

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to ...