Dr. David Butterfield
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first heard Jul 2026
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But there's also a version of seeing beyond.
And you see beyond by getting rid of the distraction of your mortal vision.
And it's the blind who have the ability to see beyond.
So, Tiresias, whom I've already mentioned, that great prophet who could see the future, he was blind.
Ironically, Oedipus, the man who unwittingly kills his father and has children with his mother, blinds himself on discovery.
because he thought he knew it all.
He thought he saw it all and could understand the situation.
He knew nothing.
And it's a sign of his transcendent knowledge that he blinds himself and takes away that distracting vision, which got in the way rather than liberated him.
So you are right.
It fits for Homer, who begins the poem by saying, Andra moi enne per musa, polytrophon, etc.
Sing to me, muse.
This deity sing through me of this polytropos aner, this man of many twists and turns.
So bards were thought to have a divine connection.
Divine song was meant to transmit through them.
And you're right that a blindness suggested an ability to see beyond.
Yeah, I think it works on several levels.
And like all great literature, it resonates with you differently at different stages in your life.
No question, the entry point that excites the young are the weird and wonderful monsters of The Wanderings of Odysseus.
It's a fantastic series of episodes which have inspired literature ever since.
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