Description:

For the past several hundred years, Western society as a whole has been primarily influenced by the dogma that matter is as that is actually "real," and that the best way to understand reality is to approach it like a machine, seeing how its parts function. This approach, while making possible the unprecedented technological advances that began during the industrial revolution, have likewise led us to an unprecedented state of emergency - primarily seen in the ecological crisis. To remedy the alienation and disenchantment that this still dominant paradigm has propagated, we must recover those dimensions of the cosmos and of our own being that can't be found or explained in material terms. Opening our "archetypal eyes," as depth psychologist James Hillman put it, can help us to once again move in rhythm with the threads of meaning that weave through our lives and the cosmos as a whole.