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... experiences are for them often of more vital importance than the events of daily life . " The ancient peoples who ... experience than meets his eye : that there exists an unseen world , veiled from his senses and his daily experiences ...
... experiences are for them often of more vital importance than the events of daily life . " The ancient peoples who ... experience than meets his eye : that there exists an unseen world , veiled from his senses and his daily experiences ...
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... experience . From this point of view , it was extremely important for his mental development that man , once he had left his original animal niche , had the run of a far larger territory than any other animal : not merely was he ...
... experience . From this point of view , it was extremely important for his mental development that man , once he had left his original animal niche , had the run of a far larger territory than any other animal : not merely was he ...
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... experience and ethical standards , self - consciousness is incomplete and self - knowledge and self - control equally so . " The subjective ordering of experience reached a higher stage in language , in its intensification of ...
... experience and ethical standards , self - consciousness is incomplete and self - knowledge and self - control equally so . " The subjective ordering of experience reached a higher stage in language , in its intensification of ...
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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