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Ecology Movements, Futurism, Feminism, Urbanism, Protest And Disarmament, Personal Individuation Cannot Alone Save The World From The Catastrophe Inherent In Our Very Idea Of The World. They Require A Cosmological Vision That Saves The Phenomenon 'world' Itself, A Move In Soul That Goes Beyond Measures Of Expediency To The Archetypal Source Of Our World's Continuing Peril: The Fateful Neglect, The Repression, Of The Anima Mundi.

The New Age Self-help Phenomenon Is Pretty Mushy, But It's Also Very American. Our History Is Filled With Traveling Preachers And Quack Medicine And Searches For The Soul. I Don't See This As A New Thing. I Think The New Age Is Part Of A Phenomenon That's Been There All Along.

I Think There Is Such A Thing As A Bad Seed That Comes To Flower In Certain People. The Danger With That Theory Is That We Begin To Look For Those "troublemakers" Early On And Try To Weed Them Out. That's Very Dangerous, Because It Could Work Against Kids Who Are Just Routine Troublemakers.

Psychotherapy Makes Every Problem A Subjective, Inner Problem. And That's Not Where The Problems Come From. They Come From The Environment, The Cities, The Economy, The Racism. They Come From Architecture, School Systems, Capitalism, Exploitation. They Come From Many Places That Psychotherapy Does Not Address. Psychotherapy Theory Turns It All On You: You Are The One Who Is Wrong.

The Whole Culture Is Under Terrible Pressure And Fraught With Worry. It's Hard To Get Out Of That Box. That's The Dominant Situation All Over The World.