this is a bird: sketchbook limited edition

"Imagine an infant lying in its cradle and the window is open and into the room comes something marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative hierophany of integrated perception... and the child is enthralled.

And then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child 'That's a bird, baby. That's a bird.' Instantly, the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent transformative mystery is collapsed into the word. All mystery is gone.

The child learns 'this is a bird, this is a bird'. And by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words."
-- Terence McKenna