The frames our minds create define-and confine-what we perceive to be possible. The meanings our minds construct may be widely shared and sustaining for us, but they may have little to do with the world itself. We perceive only the sensations we are programmed to receive, and our awareness is further restricted by the fact that we recognize only those for which we have mental maps or categories. The senses of every species are fine-tuned to perceive information critical to their survival-dogs hear sounds above our range of hearing, insects pick up molecular traces emitted from potential mates acres away. Art, after all, is about rearranging us, creating surprising juxtapositions, emotional openings, startling presences, flight paths to the eternal. It uses the metaphor of music, and relies on all the arts. It is a book with suggestions for novel ways of defining ourselves, others, and the world we live in-ways that may be more apt for the challenges of our time. Find the right framework and extraordinary accomplishment becomes an everyday experience. Draw a different frame around the same set of circumstances and new pathways come into view. Many of the circumstances that seem to block us in our daily lives may only appear to do so based on a framework of assumptions we carry with us.
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