Mind in Deep Time: Original Participation and Re-enchantment of the World

This paper describes my experiences exploring consciousness as an artist-engraver, in particular the sense of reawakening the participatory primal mind which came about through the act of engraving. This ‘original participation’ is viewed as a fundamental characteristic of our early Acheuelan ancestors and evidence is presented to show that they possessed both a ‘modern’ aesthetic sense and also a prayerful, sacramental consciousness. It is suggested that this primal consciousness is a funda mental human quality which became eclipsed in the modern mind by the denial of participation and the Cartesian split between subject and object during the Scientific Revolution.

Source: Explore - August 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Barry Cottrell Tags: Explorations Source Type: research