Re-Enchanting the World
“Because disenchantment is intrinsic to the scientific worldview, the modern epoch contained, from its inception, an inherent instability that severely limited its ability to sustain itself for more than a few centuries. For more than 99 percent of human history, the world was enchanted and man saw himself as an integral part of it.
The complete reversal of this perception in a mere four hundred years or so has destroyed the continuity of the human experience and the integrity of the human psyche. It has nearly wrecked the planet as well.
The only hope, or so it seems to me, lies in a re-enchantment of the world.”
–Morris Berman (American Cultural Historian, Writer and Visiting Faculty Member of the Catholic University of America, 1944-)