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... Perhaps the first hint of this immense storehouse of sounds , images , patterns , in all their prodigality and super- fluity , came to man in his dreams . Through the dream , then , man became conscious of a haunting ' super- natural ...
... Perhaps the first hint of this immense storehouse of sounds , images , patterns , in all their prodigality and super- fluity , came to man in his dreams . Through the dream , then , man became conscious of a haunting ' super- natural ...
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... perhaps assign an even longer period to its acquisition than to language itself . What I would stress in all this dim but indubitable evidence is the amount of intelligent discrimination , evaluation , and ingenuity it reveals ...
... perhaps assign an even longer period to its acquisition than to language itself . What I would stress in all this dim but indubitable evidence is the amount of intelligent discrimination , evaluation , and ingenuity it reveals ...
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... perhaps , mankind is still haunted by dreams of effortless superabundance : dreams that come back in swift realization to those who go berry - picking or mushroom - hunting or flower - gathering , when more fruit or blossoms are there ...
... perhaps , mankind is still haunted by dreams of effortless superabundance : dreams that come back in swift realization to those who go berry - picking or mushroom - hunting or flower - gathering , when more fruit or blossoms are there ...
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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