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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were already present in the ranks of our ancestors. . . . Body and soul therefore have an intensely historical character. . . .We have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wider violence the farther it takes us from our roots . . .
... See moreSandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
That Time William S. Burroughs Fled a Ranch School in New Mexico
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Our family stories will outlast the stories of this civilisation, but at the moment they are almost invisible in the shadow of monolithic grand narratives like ‘progress’. The narrative of progress is grounded in the myth of primitivism—the widely held assumption that life before the industrial era was brief, brutish, savage and simple.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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