1. The Disconnect of Nature and Society
One of the more important and frequently referenced topics in Spell of the Sensuous, observing and acknowledging the impact culture has on our perceptions, opinions, feelings, and in general every aspect of life. ... He noticed that they treated the earth as a living creature that responded to what they do just as much as they did to it. ... "we cannot, as humans, precisely experience the living sensations of another form. ... "For almost all oral cultures, the enveloping and sensuous earth remains the dwelling place of both the living and the dead.... The earth is not acknowledged a...
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