Overcoming Solidity: World Crisis and the New Nature

We know that today we are divorced from nature to a degree that is threatening our existence. We also know that those sensual animal qualities that characterized our existence, when we were embedded soulfully in nature, have departed and we long for their return . . . We appear to be in a soul process of overcoming solidity and entering a new status of soul-word in which the animal, the sensual, and the wild are indeed returning, but at a totally new and unheard-of level of complexity in consciousness. From the Introduction