We are disconnected by the concept of linear time

When we visit places like Stonehenge, we fail to connect with them. We turn to literature and imagine druids and astronomers, rather than attuning ourselves to the site itself. As a result, we feel no connection to either the land or the past. We perceive Stonehenge through the prism of scientific hypotheses or romantic myths, instead of experiencing it through other channels of consciousness whose existence our culture denies.

The people of the "New Age" want to preserve the prehistoric secret, but it remains elusive, having vanished under the onslaught of our totalitarian consciousness. Australian Aborigines viewed the world holistically—themselves as part of the earth and all that inhabits it. We, on the other hand, have been cut off from this perspective by a linear concept of time and our obsession with classification.

The only way to free ourselves from this trap is through poetry—by overthrowing the language that has imposed this narrow view of reality on us. It is poetry, not prose, that leads to a stream of consciousness and a cyclical perception of the world. Until we regain this perspective, we remain prisoners of our own minds, alien to both nature and ourselves.