Plagued by fears of civilizational collapse, the human relation to nature is charging back into modern consciousness. The natural sciences alert us to calamities on a vast scale, yet court the suspicion that they themselves presuppose an attitude intrinsic to the destructive dynamic. Thoughtful people diagnose a spiritual malaise at the heart of modern western culture. They wonder aloud how...
In human history when and how did dreaming consciousness and the ability to metaphorize (or “imagemake”) originate? This question has been the subject of extensive research by MacKenzie (1965), Mumford (1966), and Langer (1972). Mumford (1966) concluded that proto-human consciousness was initially comprised of dreamlike consciousness which gradually evolved into waking consciousness, in...