History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

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.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

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

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

Include the knower in the known.