1. Introduction What is called ‘education’ in the modern West presupposes that nothing ‘really’ exists other than many objects (including humans) perceivable by sight and touch and believed to be composed ultimately of innumerable interacting atoms within a vast universe of space and time. This metaphysical view is called “materialism” (short for “atheistic materialism”). It is, of course, opposed by people who believe in one or more ‘divine’ beings (‘God’ or ‘gods’). It is also opposed by people who have experienced what appears to them to be a non-material reality of some kind, including people who have contacted apparently independently-existing intelligent entities via the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) or other psychedelics.
An Ecology of Souls
An Ecology of Souls
An Ecology of Souls
1. Introduction What is called ‘education’ in the modern West presupposes that nothing ‘really’ exists other than many objects (including humans) perceivable by sight and touch and believed to be composed ultimately of innumerable interacting atoms within a vast universe of space and time. This metaphysical view is called “materialism” (short for “atheistic materialism”). It is, of course, opposed by people who believe in one or more ‘divine’ beings (‘God’ or ‘gods’). It is also opposed by people who have experienced what appears to them to be a non-material reality of some kind, including people who have contacted apparently independently-existing intelligent entities via the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) or other psychedelics.