A hammer, the carpenter, visions, lucid confusions, and the mystery

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            What we are doing is not what we are doing. Just as the hammer swung by a man knows naught of the nail, nor the board, nor the house it will build, nor the goings on to come within the finished structure; so it is that we carry out the tasks in life which the carpenter uses to build a greater outcome than we can imagine.

            And yet we are not mere hammers.

You must understand that if I speak of these visions, they are not of sight, but of sudden, lucid confusions, when the mind implodes and explodes, dissipates and expands; when the mind, whatever it is, forgets what it thought it was, does not question what it is, and lives intimately within, and as, that mystery which, in the reflective, drunken aftermath of such experience, it will forever disputably call mind.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.