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Synopsis
This book is about the disruption of the intellect that awakens consciousness to its wholeness and purpose. When consciousness is fractured, its world-making powers are momentarily disrupted. In the gap, during which spatio-temporal categories of thought cease to apply, consciousness realigns with that which it is meant to serve. The moment of selfremembering--shocking, unique, and truthful--leaves a call to obedience in its wake. To refuse to respond is to cease to be human.
Booknews
Appelbaum (philosophy, State U. of New York) explores how the disruption of the intellect fractures consciousness, which loses its world-making power and realigns itself with wholeness and purpose. He discusses such aspects as the perception of the formless and formless perception, toward a somatic critique of retentivity, sympathy and the plight of the self, and suffering and the passivity of the subject. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.