The modern vision of ourselves and the world has stultified our imaginations. It has fixed our view of personality (psychology), of insanity (psychopathology), of matter and objects (science), of the cosmos (metaphysics), and of the nature of the divine (theology). Moreover it has fixed the methods in all these fields so that they present a unified front against soul. Some people in desperation have turned to witchcraft, magic and occultism, to drugs and madness, anything to rekindle imagination and find a world ensouled. But these reactions are not enough. What is needed is a revisioning, a fundamental shift of perspective out of that soulless predicament we call modern consciousness.
James Hillman, Revisioning Psychology
Been slowly reading James Hillman’s classic book (an inspiration to all the soulmaking folks). This quote really emphasized the point I was making the other day — specifically, the totalizing nature of our modern worldview. Many people sense this view’s limitations, but their attempts to break can be problematic and incomplete without a larger, more well-considered (dare I say systematic?) approach.