The long time scale is not a part of our ordinary psyche. It lies in the realm of the extraordinary; that is, outside the boundaries of our own lives. No matter how we parse it, it brings us to the edge of the unknown, and drops us off there as time marches off into territories where we can never follow. ... Man needs to know where he is not only from the point of view of his immediate surroundings, but where the culture—where the tribe, the species—will be 1000 or even 10,000 years from now. ... The so-called "modern" psyche, with its increasing and ever-accelerating emphasis on the short-term, on soundbites and fractured attention spans, is in the process of destroying this mechanism. ... Human beings, in a word, have forgotten where they are. --Lee van Laer, Cycles of Myth and the Long Time Scale, Zen, Yoga, Gurjieff #culture #psychology #time buff.ly/1bj2ty0
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:30:37 +0000
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