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I first read Dreams of Dragons as a teenager, and admit i returned the book only very reluctantly. Since then education has sharpened my thinking but, I hope, not dulled my appreciation of a novel approach or my willingness to stretch credibility to a reasonable extent.
Mark Twain was quoted as saying: "I keep an open mind, not a receptacle for the rubbish of all and sundry". This book now has disturbing echoes of that statement, even keeping in mind it was never intended for testing against rigorous empirical standards.
Which is probably just as well. Now I dont know enough about the experimentation procedures through which the supporting data was created, to be able to accuse that of sloppiness or not being scientifically based. Science, after all, does not look at the world through rose tinted glasses but there is no escaping the limitations of whatever instrument we do use. However I do find the interpretations disturbing in the sense that they appear exploratory and no more. They do not offer any practicable solutions to existing problems and furthermore, in one instance at least, in the essay on headhunters and cannibalism, an extremely irresponsible view is hinted at, that cannibalism etc. should be considered acceptable because an entire society had built itself around the practice. That is rather like saying anorexia should be considered an acceptable way of life, regardless of how much suffering it brings to self and others, simply because the sufferer has built her entire life around it and is unwilling to do the hard work to heal herself.
T his book is just so very typical of psychological speculation and quasi-scientific research performed in the States during the seventies.
