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... dream . From the beginning , one must infer , man was a dreaming animal ; and possibly the richness of his dreams was what enabled him to depart from the restrictions of a purely animal career . Though dogs may dream , no dream ever ...
... dream . From the beginning , one must infer , man was a dreaming animal ; and possibly the richness of his dreams was what enabled him to depart from the restrictions of a purely animal career . Though dogs may dream , no dream ever ...
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... dream . • The dream itself testifies to a more general organic exuberance that can hardly be accounted for on any purely adaptive principle , any more than one can account for the possession of ' absolute pitch ' in music . Long before ...
... dream . • The dream itself testifies to a more general organic exuberance that can hardly be accounted for on any purely adaptive principle , any more than one can account for the possession of ' absolute pitch ' in music . Long before ...
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... dream . Until the dream finally helped to create culture it may have served as an impalpable substitute : tricky , delusive , misleading , but mind - stirring . Our highly mechanized Western civilization has many devices for limit- ing ...
... dream . Until the dream finally helped to create culture it may have served as an impalpable substitute : tricky , delusive , misleading , but mind - stirring . Our highly mechanized Western civilization has many devices for limit- ing ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York