New ways of "thinking" about reality produce social revolutions. When the unconscious contents underlying the symbols of our shared vision change, we can create unique social forms. We accept that what we share is real as we know ourselves participants of a web of intersocial correspondences. Charles Taylor suggests that the things in which we recognize ourselves are the things that establish the real. We know each other because we are perceived. We learn because we create a

Greek mythology tells of Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, punished in Hades for his misdeeds in life with the eternal task of rolling a large stone to the drop of a hill, from which it always rolled down again. Different stories explain Sisyphus' punishment. The first suggests that Sisyphus betrayed Zeus' trust, by informing Asopus, father of Aegina, that Zeus had kidnapped Aegina from her home in Corinth. According to this story, Sisyphus did it in exchange of a citadel. The second

Tolkien knew: Men have the gift of the gods, gods who planned a long journey for us, an imprecise journey that may not even have begun here. We are passengers on a flight, of which we do not know the final destination. This is our gift, the gift of lightness, just a brief look at everything, just the dazzling sunset that leaves consciousness blind and mute. I cannot know anything. I only intuit that the clouds surrounding Santa Fe and the emerald green of its nearby hills are