Just as an aside, your words made me think of a book I've been more pondering on than reading for the past year. I'm reading it in dribs and drabs: conceptually, it's very interesting. The comments in this link are worth reading...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/[...]8582.The_Spell_of_the_Sensuous.

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Read that book a few years back, his story about being trapped in a small cave as the rains fell and the spiders wove their web around him still buzzes in my mind.
What of course no one says is that phenemonology is not confined to archaeology. When my son was at uni doing computer studies he came home and asked me to buy him some books. There was four by Christopher Alexander - The Nature of Order. I could not understand how an architect could be useful to computers, but of course read the books when they came in. They taught me how to look deeper into the things around, the actual 'wholeness' of the everyday things in the world. This is where David Abram is coming from, it is captured in the perfect swan's wing on the cover......>

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Yes, and the bit where he feels he's floating in the universe due to the reflection of stars, plus fireflies, in the paddy field below him!

Thanks for the tip - I shall have a look.