Man has developed consciousness slowly and laboriously, in a process that took untold ages to reach the civilized state which is arbitrarily dated from the invention of script in about 4000 b.

人类意识的形成是一个缓慢而艰难的过程，经历了无数世代后才达到文明状态(或许可以上溯至约公元前4000年时的文字发明)。

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Why? Because we've developed a historical consciousness.

为什么？，因为我们已经形成了历史意识。

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There is a more subtle state of awareness that may be developed through meditation and can be thought of as being more subtle and like that of the dreaming state of consciousness.

通过冥想还能进入另外一种更微妙的认知状态，这种状态类似于清醒梦。

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By reading, traveling and listening to country and folk music (especially Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie), he also developed a political consciousness.

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Anyhow, Max's passing reminds me that I'm blessed not just to have met him, but for another reason, because my political, cultural and musical consciousness developed at a most wonderful time.

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