¶ Cosmic Fishing
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The name, COSMIC FISHING, which Ed Applewhite uses in his book came about in the following way. Very frequently as I was working on the manuscript some special turn of thought brought me in full view of a magnificent new awareness. I would stop my work and call to Ed typing at a table behind me and say, ‘Ed you are very good at writing things down quickly, please make a record of this,’ and I would then describe the new vista of physics or mathematical relationship which to the best of my knowledge had heretofore never been discovered by humans within our known history. I described to Ed the fisherman fishing over the side of a boat with his bait, sinker, hook and line suspended motionlessly deep in the water when suddenly there comes a nibble. The competent fisherman learns to jerk the line quickly enough to catch the fish’s mouth, otherwise fish are very expert in nibbling away the bait from the hook without getting caught. Then the fisherman, if he can hook the fish, reels it in and some fish battle very powerfully.
I pointed out to Ed that the intuitions of humanity are the fishing equipment–that many,many people get the bright idea or nibble but then become interested in some other matter,
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Buck Williamson, Amherst, 'A; 5 May’77
