Literature and the Evolution of Consciousness

African Afuwape Ajala Aldous Huxley alienation Arthur Koestler artist attitudes awareness Baudelaire become belief called century character Chardin concept cosmic created creation creative criticism death divine earth emotion English European evolution of consciousness evolutionary existence expression Ezra Pound fact feelings heart Heidegger human consciousness human mind Ibid idea Igbo imagination individual inspiration integration intellectual Julian Jaynes knowledge language literary literature living London look man's meaning metaphor midrash modern modernists moral mystical experience myth nature ness novel objects Old Testament oral culture Orunmila paradigm perception philosophical poem poet poetic poetry Pound race rational reality reason reinterpretation Satyavan Savitri says scientific sciousness sense social society soul spirit Sri Aurobindo Stevens structure supermind symbols T.S. Eliot theory things thought tion tradition truth unity universe Upanishads vision W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens words writing Yoga Yoruba