We are literally hypnotized from infancy by the cultural milieu in which we are immersed; we see the world the way we are enculturated to see it. A prime task of adult life is to become dehypnotized, “enlightened”—to see reality as it is.
—Willis Harman, Global Mind Change
Creativity, in almost every area of life, is blocked by a wide range of rigidly held assumptions that are taken for granted by society as a whole.
—David Bohm, Dialogue as a New Creative Order
Deep ecology sees the world not as a collection of isolated objects, but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent … There is another way in which Arne Naess has characterized deep ecology. “The essence of deep ecology,” he says, “is to ask deeper questions.” This is also the essence of a paradigm shift.