341. 10 Key Concepts

Sense of harmony and interconnectedness

• a kind of "pre-system" systems awareness
• prevalent use of natural metaphors for the divine

Alternative metaphysics: pre-critical monism, not dualism

• neither objectivist nor reductionist
• avoids the bifurcation of "fact and value"

Social reality of the individual

• neither group nor individual is given priority

Community as transcending human members

• "Peoples": winged peoples, four-legged peoples
• human community is interwoven with the plant, animal communities

Memory, narrative, & communal history: story vs. statute

• absence of "history", formal records
• formulation of group memory as narrative
• story as a better vehicle for wisdom