was probably anything but clear and distinct. It was likely something more along the lines of what Jung--borrowing from Lucien Lévy-Bruhl--called participation mystique, more a matter of encounter than of "objective" observation. I feel pretty certain that this manner of apprehending reality survives in quite of few of us, and I would submit that it is, in some ways, a more valid way of encountering the world than the merely rational, simply because it does not so radically detach the knower from the known.from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Thinking is magical to begin with
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