“The mystical state is the opposing alternative to the experience of alienation. Against the disorientation, decathexis and desensitization. That I suggest characterize modernity and post-modernity, the emerging form of life in a mystical society is characterised by unification rather than dispersion; holistic rationality rather than functional specialization; release of historically pent up emotion rather than cool instrumental calculation…"
Philip Wexler - Mystical Society
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