The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

It is by metaphor that language grows.