Preface

The history of the western man has been marked by a fracture which, since Plato, has split the mind from the body. The original unity of these two components was broken by the invention of writing, which allowed the mind to go abstract and to go away from world's objects, which led to a self-doomed destiny of solitude. The flight of the mind from the body is just an illusion, and the only solution is the retrieval of a harmonic unity, the consciousness of being worldly.