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<i>One of the big differences between us and our ancestors of five hundred years ago is that they lived in an “enchanted” world, and we do not; at the very least, we live in a much less “enchanted” world...The enchanted world was one in which these forces could cross a porous boundary and shape our lives, psychic and physical. One of the big differences between us and them is that we live with a much firmer sense of the boundary between self and other. We are “buffered” selves…Modern Westerners have a clear boundary between mind and world, even mind and body. Moral and other meanings are “in the mind.”</i>

What’s most lacking from our culture is not ethical discourses,
but the awareness that the physical world has been imbued...

On the Need for an American ‘Reenchantment’

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