Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only thro… - Terence McKenna

Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the Great God Pan to that of Pisces that occurred with the suppression of the pagan mysteries and the rise of Christianity. The psychological shift that ensued left European civilization staring into two millennia of religious mania and persecution, warfare, materialism, and rationalism.
The monstrous forces of scientific industrialism and global politics that have been born into modern times were conceived at the time of the shattering of the symbiotic relationships with the plants that had bound us to nature from our dim beginnings. This left each human being frightened, guilt-burdened, and alone. Existential man was born.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

... the way I interpret the material you deal with Art, the weird experiences, and the ideas people generate out of it, and the public attention to all that, is that something is trying to be told, the universe is trying to reach us ...