@saljyns @philosophy

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that this kind of picture [ used to illustrate #monism / #immanentism ] is being widespread across #cultures and times, is referred to in #GenevièveBrykman's "Bayle's Case for Spinoza" (PAS, vol. 88), citing the early #Gassendi secretary and later orient traveller #FrancoisBernier:
"Various Indian and Persian
philosophers, Bernier observes, 'will palm you off with fine
comparisons and say that God is like an immense ocean, in
which many vials, full of water, move; that those vials, wherever
they should go, would always be in the same ocean, in the same
water; and that if they should break, the waters contained in
them would then be united to their whole, to that ocean of which
they are portions'."(p.262)

Since it seems common for newcomers to make a small #Introduction, here is mine :

I am a privileged person. Deeply in love with my life partner (21 years and going), and fully committed in writing, the study of creativity theory, the teaching of creative writing. Being a published writer, an active screenplay writer and creative writing professor at Université de Montréal, I do my best to some good in this life.

I am also a late diagnosed autist and a non-binary person (autigender sounds right for me). Most people still use "he" or "him" with me and this is fine : I am used to being gendered as a male. But when someone uses "they" with me, it sure feels good.

If I had to crush my daily life in a list of non-hierarchical hashtags, it might look like this : #ActuallyAutistic #LGBTQ #Queer #Writing #CreativeWriting #Literature #Screenplay #Qcliteratue #Novel #NonFiction #Poetry #ResearchCreation #CreativityTheory #CreativityTeaching #CreativeWorkshops #Dialogism #Ecofeminism #Immanentism #Decolonialism #Emancipation #Listening #Gardening #VegetableGardening #Quebec #Canada #Gaia