“The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.” StatesFeelingsGivenEmotionExistenceConditionsPossibilityMoodEncountersOpennessConcreteFulfilledPrevailing Author:Medard Boss
“We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.” MenHumansDifferentStatesRealityAnimalExistenceMaterialsPlantPrimariesRealmsCharacteristicsUnrealHuman ExistenceIllusory Author:Medard Boss
