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As The Popular Trust In Science Fades - And Many Sociologists Say That's Happening Today - People Will Develop A Distrust Of Purely "scientific" Psychology. Researchers In The Universities Haven't Picked Up On This; They're More Interested In Genetics And Computer Models Of Thinking Than Ever. But, In General, There Is A Huge Distrust Of The Scientific Establishment Now.

I Think The Worst Atmosphere For A Six-year-old Is One In Which There Are No Expectations Whatsoever. That Is, It's Worse For The Child To Grow Up In A Vacuum Where "whatever You Do Is Alright, I'm Sure You'll Succeed." That Is A Statement Of Disinterest. It Says, "i Really Have No Fantasies For You At All."

Rather Let Us Imagine The Anima Mundi As That Particular Soul-spark, That Seminal Image, Which Offers Itself Through Each Thing In Its Visible Form. Then Anima Mundi Indicates The Animated Possibilities Presented By Each New Event As It Is, Its Sensuous Presentation As A Face Bespeaking Its Interior Image - In Short, Its Availability To Imagination, Its Presence As Psychic Reality. Not Only Animals And Plants Ensouled As In The Romantic Vision, But Soul Is Given With Each Thing, God-given Things Of Nature And Man-made Things Of The Street.

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.

People Used To Trust Their Doctor. They Went To An Expert. Now People Have New Ideas And Are Thinking For Themselves. That's A Very Important Change In Our Collective Psychology.