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11/15/2006
Preconquest Consciousness
A couple of weeks back I posted a lengthy quote from 'Preconquest Consciousness' by E Richard Sorensen about a tribe that 'fell' out of a pre conquest state into a civilised mind set in the space of a week. The actual article is much longer and Dan is now hosting the entire piece here in the writings section of his site - which is a much place than this site to host it.
I can't reccomend is highly enough. As a parent using The Continuum Concept as an inspiration and a guide with my family the Sorensen essay has been particualrly effective at placing the preconquest consciousness in context. I never thought I'd raise children to be like Yequanna children (or wanted to) but now I can see how profoundly a different mindset we civilised beings have.
The best metaphor I can come up with (as someone who rarely remembers his dreams) is that the difference between the pre and post conscious state is like the difference between dreaming and reality. It's almost impossible to comprehend the dream state from the 'reality' state and no one in the reality state knows how to get back to the dream state either.
Thanks also to the reader who originally emailed the piece to me (if you're still visiting)
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