The Kindergarten of Creation: The Musica Universalis in Me

We plant trees in every yard. Our minds tell us these are just decorative objects sticking out of the ground, but our hearts whisper a different story.

In Saving the Appearances, Owen Barfield’s says that in ancient times, phenomena themselves were different because people looked at them with a different set of eyes - the eyes of participation.

This intrigued me. Does it mean that the tree WAS something else for, say, Plato or Pithagoras? If so, what was it?

Rupert Sheldrake says in his book Science De…