“The collective memory stores under the form of ‘ornament’ or ‘decorative’ element,  archaic symbols of purely metaphysical essence; the greater part of popular ornamentation is of meta-physical origin.”

– Mircea Eliade

“No abundance of clues can assist the detective who is unwilling to theorize how the crime was committed”

–  John Archibald Wheeler

                                                      

ACKNOWELDGEMENTS: 

For Karl Kerenyi, a mentor and my guide to the architecture of the archaic Greek mind.

John Archibald Wheeler for his bold and poetic insight into the “quantum” world:  “It from Bit”

Patrick Conty for his provocative work:  “The Genesis and Geometry of the Labyrinth”

Julian Jaynes for his thought provoking hypothesis on the role of language and metaphor in “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind“.

Amit Goswami for his quantum take on the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

And a warm head’s up to Doctor Walter Becker (wherever you are)…