Normano Marrone, the author of Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis, and two-time recipient of the Swedenborg Visionary of Honours Award, believes that “seeing is always second sight” and that, “…most people wouldn’t see God if they were staring him right in the face”. According to Marrone, perception is the arrangement of sensory material into pre-established patterns of understanding. The visual data we receive is supplied externally but it is stored in man-made cabinets that have already been measured and shaped. “Recently...” Marrone explained, "...I sat through a Tlönian documentary film without ever looking down at the subtitles, you’d be amazed what I thought I heard!”. Marrone asserts that we cannot learn by objective observation, attempting to do so would only produce a closed circuit loop. .
