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Chapter Five: Distant Longing
It is the infinite for which we hunger, and we ride gladly on every little wave that promises to bear us towards it. – Havelock Ellis Modern Westerners typically experience themselves as isolated, self-contained units of consciousness disconnected from other human beings and life itself. An intuitive sense our true self is infinitely greater than…
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Chapter One: Paradise Lost
“What joins all these – in the book as in life – is the roaring current of change, a current so powerful today that it overturns institutions, shifts our values, and shrivels our roots.” – Alvin Toffler “We come from God and we are in exile.” – Jan van Ruysbroeck Modern human identity and awareness has…