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Page 83
... living part of the present . With the development of language , its main components , autistic ex- pression , social communion , group identification , and intelligent communi- cation persisted and interacted : in living speech , they ...
... living part of the present . With the development of language , its main components , autistic ex- pression , social communion , group identification , and intelligent communi- cation persisted and interacted : in living speech , they ...
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... living something about life that will forever escape scientific analysis , even after the scientist has reduced to a chemical formula or an electric charge every observable manifestation of the living organism . So , too , only in ...
... living something about life that will forever escape scientific analysis , even after the scientist has reduced to a chemical formula or an electric charge every observable manifestation of the living organism . So , too , only in ...
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... living person and an immortal : he was born and died like other men , yet he would be reborn , like his other self , Osiris , even as his power was renewed each day , like that of the returning sun , Atum - Re , after effecting a safe ...
... living person and an immortal : he was born and died like other men , yet he would be reborn , like his other self , Osiris , even as his power was renewed each day , like that of the returning sun , Atum - Re , after effecting a safe ...
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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