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Page 33
... reality to the billions of years the cosmos supposedly passed through before man appeared , secretly smuggles a human • observer into the statement , for it is man's ability to think backwards and forwards that creates and counts and ...
... reality to the billions of years the cosmos supposedly passed through before man appeared , secretly smuggles a human • observer into the statement , for it is man's ability to think backwards and forwards that creates and counts and ...
Page 49
... reality , to his own peril or profit . If dreaming did not in fact leave visible imprints on human conduct , it would be only by each individual's own experience in dreaming that he would be able to accept , without incredulity , the ...
... reality , to his own peril or profit . If dreaming did not in fact leave visible imprints on human conduct , it would be only by each individual's own experience in dreaming that he would be able to accept , without incredulity , the ...
Page 159
... whole community could participate , on a far higher level of well - being than had been possible in a mainly food - gathering economy . This daily work not merely unified the ' reality - principle ' and the ARCHAIC VILLAGE CULTURE 159.
... whole community could participate , on a far higher level of well - being than had been possible in a mainly food - gathering economy . This daily work not merely unified the ' reality - principle ' and the ARCHAIC VILLAGE CULTURE 159.
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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