Philip Sherrard

Modern science has its origin in a loss of memory, a forgetfulness by man of who he is. By an ineluctable logic inherent in this origin it proceeds along a course each step of which is marked by a further fall by man into deeper ignorance of his own nature and consequently into deeper ignorance of the nature of everything else… Nothing can stop this process except a complete reversal of direction. And nothing can initiate a reversal of direction except a recovery by man of an awareness of who he is.

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Originally published in Studies in Comparative Religion, vol. 10, no. 2. (Spring, 1976). Republished here with thanks to World Wisdom.