Learning
October 9th, 2008
Learning
image: faith goble
Manna from heaven is assumed in a materially based world to mean physical food. I have trawled the recipe books, from Ramsey to Ronay, Blumenthal to Craddock and all stops in between and there is none for manna. Different people posit different ideas: herbs, esoteric foodstuffs, specific pastries and sweets but all are barking up the wrong tree.
You see, manna is a description of learning, it is the amalgamation of knowledge and experience and that is the true foodstuff of heaven or the gods or whichever cosmology you subscribe to. To learn is all, to become a greater being as a result of one’s learning and the application of what one has learned is the greatest pleasure accessible to any of us.
Learn something new all of the time. Look at those things you are familiar toward with new eyes. Imagine you were a stranger in a strange land, imagine you were the pilot of a UFO stopped here temporarily to refuel or whatever they make temporary stops for.
See your life through different eyes, grow and change, become something bigger and better than you are already. That is manna, manna from heaven.
Bon appetit!