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... consciousness , and the explora- tion of organic potentialities in patterns of increasing significance , man's relation to the cosmos is reversed . In the light of human consciousness , it is not man , but the whole uni- verse of still ...
... consciousness , and the explora- tion of organic potentialities in patterns of increasing significance , man's relation to the cosmos is reversed . In the light of human consciousness , it is not man , but the whole uni- verse of still ...
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... consciousness in a single being , the hugest star counts for less than a cretinous dwarf . Physicists now estimate the age of the earth as between four and five billion years ; and the earliest possible evidence of life comes about two ...
... consciousness in a single being , the hugest star counts for less than a cretinous dwarf . Physicists now estimate the age of the earth as between four and five billion years ; and the earliest possible evidence of life comes about two ...
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... consciousness that the universe becomes visible , and should that light disappear , only nothingness would remain . Except on the lighted stage of human conscious- ness , the mighty cosmos is but a mindless nonentity . Only through ...
... consciousness that the universe becomes visible , and should that light disappear , only nothingness would remain . Except on the lighted stage of human conscious- ness , the mighty cosmos is but a mindless nonentity . Only through ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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