Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.
