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Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen. -[[Terence McKenna]] | Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen. -[[Terence McKenna]] | ||
- | "Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There' | + | "Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself.There' |
“(...) also honour the stability of the world: the orbits of the Sun and the Moon, winds and air, earth and water... We have no other foothold. If we give up this world we shall be destroyed by demons and deprived of the angels' | “(...) also honour the stability of the world: the orbits of the Sun and the Moon, winds and air, earth and water... We have no other foothold. If we give up this world we shall be destroyed by demons and deprived of the angels' | ||
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+ | Instead he proposes: | ||
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+ | In place of a single general-purpose intelligence, | ||
+ | ing artefacts. Such intuitive biology would have provided hominins with the type of expert folk-botanical and folk-zoological knowledge that is characteristic of recent hunter-gatherers. | ||
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+ | We must, however, make a distinction here between this type of ecological knowledge and the use of anthropomorphism..... Indeed, Kennedy (1992) argues that human beings in general are prone to a compulsive anthropomorphizing, | ||
+ | acquired and culturally transmitted – human minds appear to be pre-tuned for acquiring and processing information about animals and plants such that virtually no active teaching is required (Atran 1990:1994). Formal training appears to be generally rare among hunter-gatherer societies. | ||
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+ | He concludes: | ||
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+ | For almost the whole of the six million years of human evolution since the common ancestor, hominins have perceived, classified, | ||
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