In Praise of the Magical Thinking That Sustains Our Humanness | Aeon Essays
The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
Henry Oliveropen.substack.com
It seems only right that technology should restore to us the enchanted world that technology itself destroyed. Perhaps the very forces that facilitated our exile from Eden will one day reanimate our garden with digital life. Perhaps the only way out is through.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
A rejection of excessive quantification. A cultural hunger for mystery, ritual, embodiment, and meaning. Our distinctly human magic emerging as our competitive edge.
Zoe Scaman • Primal Intelligence
One thing I’ve also noticed is the gradual loss of the understanding of “imagination” as a category; it can sound a little Reading Rainbow to talk about, but wouldn’t you know imagination is actually an essential part of the human condition. In so far as the words “spirit” or “spirituality” mean anything beyond woo-woo or cliché they must include... See more