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Consciousness today is closer to it pathology. Psychopathology is no longer held behind asylum walls. The sickness fantasy is now so dominant that one sees disintegration, pollution, insanities, cancerous growth, and decay wherever on looks. Pathology has entered our speech and we judge our fellows and our society in terms once reserved for psychiatric diagnoses. And the ego falls apart.

The seventeenth-century world had no place for an imaginal population.That population was damned into demonism.

Multiple personality was ending the rule of reason and so of course this phenomenon became the focus of the defender of reason: psychiatrists.

We sin against the imagination whenever we ask an image for its meaning, requiring that images be translated into concepts.

The autonomy of fantasy is the soul's last refuge of dignity, its guarantor against all opressions; it alone we can take with us into the barracks behind the barbed wire. If we are willing to accept internal controls upon the imagination, we will have succumbed already in soul to the same authoritarianism that dominate the body politic. The connection between submission to external controls is subtle, but is real. Transcendental meditation systems, Skinnerian ideas of control, and Siberia are closer to one another than we may realize, and they come closer to each of us when we neglect the importance of freedom and dignity of fantasy.