Consciousness and Rankings in the Labyrinth

Assessing the social hierarchies of spirituality and materialism

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Ancient Greek thinkers drew a peculiar distinction between pneuma and psyche. Both were identified with air or with the breath of life, and sometimes with fire (as in Stoicism) and later with motion and the ether (Aristotle), although psyche was related more to soul or the…