If the present alienation of mind from nature, i.e., the Cartesian reality principle, is to be overcome, there "surely must be a climate of extreme depression amounting in many quarters to despair... One way or another there is an opportunity here for a good writer... who should fill out in terms of concrete events and experiences the issues... If a society is really faced with startling changes and fairly imminent ones (and there is a good deal of evidence that ours is) it cannot be amiss for a few people here and there to be peering ahead, however inadequately, by way of preparation for...
If the present alienation of mind from nature, i.e., the Cartesian reality principle, is to be overcome, there "surely must be a climate of extreme...
The stability of our culture-our language, understanding of being, and modes of living or cultural practices, has depended on our implicit acceptance of fundamental binaries such as inner/outer; spirit/matter; fiction/reality, along with the real appearances they produce (i.e., the way we understand things). An anomaly is penetrating this traditional world, disrupting these logical categories, and disturbing the stable appearances. It is traumatic for individuals and chaotic for society, but it is also a harbinger of another way of understanding reality, another way for the things to appear...
The stability of our culture-our language, understanding of being, and modes of living or cultural practices, has depended on our implicit acceptance ...
