In 1925, a woman named Florence Scovel Shinn published a book that should not exist. The ideas inside it were radical enough that she had to anchor them in biblical language just to say them safely. A century later, those ideas lead somewhere most readers have never followed — straight into the opening line of the Gospel of John, and a question that changes how you understand consciousness itself.
What if John wasn’t saying “in the beginning was the Word”? What if he was saying in the beginning was Logos — reason, logic, the organizing principle of the universe? And what if that leads somewhere even further.
That is where this dialogue goes.
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