"To feel the power of a symbol is to enter a world of make-believe" (Stevens, 76).
"In theory, war could be waged and animals could be hunted without the use of weapons, but in practice it is unlikely that they ever have been"(Stevens, 284).
"Rites of initiation, therefore are culturally evolved means of facilitating the primary imperative built into the Self for incarnation in the phenomenal world- that is to say to be actualized in consciousness, in personality, and in action or behavior" (Stevens, 217).
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