Our Time Has Been Distinguished, More Than By Anything Else, By A Mastery, A Control, Of The External World, And By An Almost Total Forgetfulness Of The Internal World. If One Estimates Human Evolution From The Point Of View Of Knowledge Of The External World, Then We Are In Many Respects Progressing. If Our Estimate Is From The Point Of View Of The Internal World, And Of Oneness Of Internal And External, Then The Judgment Must Be Very Different.

-R. D. Laing

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Our Time Has Been Distinguished, More Than

R. D. Laing

Our Time Has Been Distinguished, More Than By Anything Else, By A Mastery, A Control, Of The External World, And By An Almost Total Forgetfulness Of The Internal World. If One Estimates Human Evolution From The Point Of View Of Knowledge Of The External World, Then We Are In Many Respects Progressing. If Our Estimate Is From The Point Of View Of The Internal World, And Of Oneness Of Internal And External, Then The Judgment Must Be Very Different.

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The Individual In The Ordinary Circumstances Of Living May Feel More Unreal Than Real; In A Literal Sense, More Dead Than Alive; Precariously Differentiated From The Rest Of The World, So That His Identity And Autonomy Are Always In Question.... He May Not Possess An Over-riding Sense Of Personal Consistency Or Cohesiveness. He May Feel More Insubstantial Than Substantial, And Unable To Assume That The Stuff He Is Made Of Is Genuine, Good, Valuable. And He May Feel His Self As Partially Divorced From His Body.

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