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See also Gouldner, A. W.The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. London-New Delhi: Heineman, 1971.
Adorno, T. W.Negative Dialectics. (E. B. Ashton, Trans:) (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1973), p. 347.
For a parallel concern with the exploration of such a mode of experience, see Ornstein, R. E., Ed.The Nature of Human Consciousness, W. H. Freeman & Co. U.S., 1973; especially articles by Ornstein, “The Processes of Vision”, Gazzaniga, “The Split Brain in Man”, Bogan, “The Other Side of the Brain: an Appositional Mind” and Deikman “Deautomatization and the Mystical Experience.” See also Corbin, H.Creative Imagination in the Sufism of lbn Arabi (Horine R., Trans.) Golgonooza Press, U.K., 1976; this attempts a phenomenological approach to Sufism. See also Ehrenzweig, A.The Hidden Order of Art, Paladin, 1970.
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The novelist Anais Nin has made a similar observation—“There is a certain way of breathing, of walking, of seeing, which transports the being into space. In this space the same spectacle of the street exists, but it undergoes a transformation.” Nin, A.Journal, Vol. 2, 1934–1939. London: Peter Owen, 1967, p. 314.
Wolff considers it a part of the experience of “surrender” that everyday sexual divisions and assumptions are questioned and altered. He discusses this more than once (pp. 21, 25, 302), yet the unquestioned male exclusivity rooted in our language occasionally appears, as here.
See footnote 8. “For humanity” might better convey the spirit of his intention.
See parallels with Marx's understanding of our alienation from our species being. Marx, K. and Engels, F.The German Ideology, London, 1965, e.g. pp. 31–32 and 57. Avineri, S.The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx London & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. pp. 70–96.
For an example of a similar mode of dialogue see Heidegger, M. “Conversation on a Country Path about Thinking” inDiscourse on Thinking, pt. 2 New York: Harper & Row, 1966. For a discussion of this, and the importance of the difference in the shape of communication, see Mackie, F.Critical Phenomenology: The Status of Everyday Reality in Relation to Alternate Reality States, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, December 1977, La Trobe University, Australia, pp. 140–154. There is a strong parallel between the alternate state released and explored in this thesis, and Wolff's consideration of “surrender.”
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Mackie, F. A sociology of survival?. Hum Stud 4, 391–396 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02127469
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