I can quibble with that -- mana would be more like refined jing, or shen in the "three treasures" schema (jing-chi-shen). The sensitivity has always been here,

I can quibble with that -- mana would be more like refined jing, or shen in the "three treasures" schema (jing-chi-shen). The sensitivity has always been here, though it has been suppressed (among some other weirder phenomena) Some interesting readings: * http://earthweareone.com/what-a-shaman-sees-in-a-mental-hospital/ http://earthweareone.com/what-a-shaman-sees-in-a-mental-hosp... * Ken Wilber's arguments about the "dignity" and "diasaster" of modernity (_The Marriage of Sense and Soul_) It's less about modern people and more about modernity itself. Modernity currently treats anything woo woo (pre-modern) as childish, wishful thinking (think, "The Secret"), and as a result, there has been pathological disassociation with wisdom traditions.