Manifesting Possible Futures

<p>If the present alienation of mind from nature i.e. the Cartesian reality principle is to be overcome there surely must be a climate of extreme depression amounting in many quarters to despair... One way or another there is an opportunity here for a good writer... who should fill out in terms of concrete events and experiences the issues... If a society is really faced with startling changes and fairly imminent ones (and there is a good deal of evidence that ours is) it cannot be amiss for a few people here and there to be peering ahead however inadequately by way of preparation for them.</p><p>Owen Barfield: <i>The Coming Trauma of Materialism</i></p>