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A. H. ESSER89original teachings of Christ,) provided the Church with its built-in obsolescence. One cannot continually hide the consequences of an ethic which declares brotherly love while simultaneously expounding the irrelevance of anybody or anything that is not divinely blessed ...
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90FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTpractically no one foresaw the emergence of the African and Asian countries, the population explosion, or the threat of nuclear war. Before we discuss the consequences of the progressive change in what has been called spontaneous behav ...
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A. H. ESSER91First, most of our imagery is unconscious, a concept easy to accept if one thinks of dream imagery which is often alien in form, but almost always relates to the waking state. Second, our earliest images, based on the immutability of structures of our physical environme ...
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92FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTeffort to maintain a (tribal) territorial rule. Let no stranger trespass! These efforts of maintaining some of the old order led to social pollution (witness the agonies of Israel during most of the reign of the Kings and the Prophets) ...
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A. H. ESSER93reconceptualizations became guided by technological practicalities. The pollution brought about by Christian exclusivity continued and became compounded by the efforts of a materialistic individualism. The growth of interest in personal gain, which is close to our basic ...
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94FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTIn discussing pre-cultural images, we have focused on those whose remains can be shown to be important in holding back the future development of man. There are, however, other images which we share with animals, one of these is altruis ...
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A. H. ESSER95to new truths, ie., those conceptualizations which give us increasing freedom of action and thereby broaden the mind. The creative process is exhilarating but can undo itself; often the creator forgets the limitations of other minds, threatening their existence which is ...
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96FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTProvided we do not destroy each other in our technical world, and provided we do not become members of the engineering world of „1984", a final question remains to be answered on our way to becoming compassionate: What can be learned f ...
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A. H. ESSER97theories about what makes man tick, and be the first to show compassion, in view of the deliberate ways of being man wil have to develop in order to progress fully beyond the environmental determinism of his past. Yet, many academicians are totaly incapable of incorpora ...
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98FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTsolutions are inadequate for the social problems in this world. W e must discuss the agonies of our time not as extreme conditions of our known past, b u t within the context of an imagined future panorama.i iI REFERENCES ...