At the center of the human psyche is a natural, intuitive, and instinctive self at home in the world. The late Laurens van der Post, champion of the South African Bushmen, called this fundamental identity our "primitive" or "wilderness" self. He saw it standing "in rags and tatters, the lowest of the low in the hierarchy of the contemporary mind."

Joanne Elizabeth Lauck, The Voice of the Infinite in the Small