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“Agriculture brings with it the potential for overproduction, which leads to excess wealth, hoarding, and trade. Trade leads to cities; cities isolate their inhabitants from the natural world. Paradoxically, more efficient utilization of plant resources through agriculture led to a breaking away from the symbiotic relationship that had bound human beings to nature.”

“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature‘s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western civilization.”

I’ve been reading this book for a year now, it’s a good book I just keep picking up other ones LOL