Dropping a Pebble into a Pond

There’s a mystery dimension in myth – there always is, and you can’t put a ring around it. It’s the difference between drawing a circle on the ground and dropping a pebble into a pond from which circles go out. The myth drops a pebble into a pond. It tells you of a certain center, it puts you on a certain center – what the Navajo call the pollen path of beauty – but it doesn’t give you a definition.

--Joseph Campbell

Steve Gold note: This imagery reminds me of something that once came to me about the process of a non-verbal method of asking a “question” and getting an “answer” in a non-intellectual, non-emotional dimension. The question comes forward in a non-verbal mode of functioning but is still a query of sorts in that subtle mode that is not verbally formulated. In my imagery, like Campbell’s quote, the posing of the question is akin to dropping a pebble into a pond, and the “answer” is provided non-verbally in that same subtle mode when the little waves it generates hit the shoreline.