the way, is very contrary to the prevailing 
intellectual mode today. But because he held to 
this, he felt that you could sort of trust the 
patterns that you saw. That there was basically an 
order in the world, and although it wasn’t a visual 
diagram—that was a print assumption—there was 
a kind of deep order. Because he believed that, and 
he believed that if you recognized patterns you 
were on to something, you didn’t have to wait for 
decades and decades of scientific research to 
figure out whether the order or the coherence of 
the patterns you saw was a truthful one. I think he 
was saying you could basically trust your 
perceptions.