"Modern post-industrial societies tend to produce un-sane populations -
- multitudes of people who are unbalanced in their adaptation to the
destructive stress of daily existence. One of the symptoms of this un-
sanity is the loss of contact between the waking ego and the depths of the
self, a contact that requires involvement in dream experiences and
information.
"Cultures generally resist change, and modern materialist societies are
no different in this respect. Devaluation of dreaming and other
spiritually efficacious experiences is part of the foundation of âfalse
consciousnessâ required by capitalist/materialist political economies.
âMaterialist cultures require that the focus of awareness be upon the
material conditions of life and away from involvement with the inner
being which is the only road to spiritual maturation.â
âCharles D. Laughlin, Communing with the Gods: Consciousness,
Culture and the Dreaming Brain