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A. H. ESSER83In the course of our organic evolution, our animal ancestors, occupying parts of the space around them, familiarized themselves with their specific environments. They utilized them to feed, to procreate and bring up their young, and defended these places of land, rocks, ...
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84FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTranee during those important times when we must make crucial decisions. For our species can survive and the cultural evolution progress only if we can modify the animal images of territory, dominance and aggression which cause our wars ...
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A. H. ESSER852. Social Pollution: the results of our attempts to replace sponta^ neous with deliberate behavior * For the sake of argument, we may simplify by saying that our animal past, our organic evolution, has defined the manner of our sporvtaneous interactions with the environ ...
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86FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTseen in this context, is unavoidable, once man changed his environment in a deliberate manner. The term pollution denotes a negative action which makes foul, impure or corrupt that which was clean, uncontaminated or sacred. We assume t ...
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A. H. ESSER87generally accepted image that each scientific idea had to fit into a hierarchy of science in which concepts of theology were uppermost; therefore, theologians were the most powerful in determining images. (It is interesting that Copernicus' work was published only after ...
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88FROM TERRITORIAL IMAGE TO CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTneed to make guidelines for the manipulation of his environment, for much the same reason we today ponder the consequences of our actions on Nature and our fellow men. In the Mosaic laws, for instance, we find regulations having to do ...
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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) ...