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Originally posted by yaluk
reply to post by ICEKOHLD
mommy used to drink before she beat me
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by Akragon
Grok, is a "word" coined or invented by the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein in the book "A Stranger in a Strange Land" employed by the main character Michael Smith, having returned to Earth from Mars a messianic type figure after being raised his whole life by unusual and enlightened Martians. It means, to take in fully, to eat and drink an idea so much, that it becomes an integral part of your very being. To "grok" something is not only to understand it, but to become one with it - it's a take on some of the sayings of Jesus surely, and it implies that understanding and awareness is formative and transformative in the life of a person. Usually, the "grokking" is of a very rich and deep, fundamental truth, which resonates or is congruent with our own inner "felt experience" to use a term now of Terrance McKenna.
Have you ever "eaten" a book? I know I've consumed a few in my time.
That's "grok".