Transactional Man

It's politically incorrect to talk about primitive mentality eg one that is not informed by scientism. Max Weber coined the term "charisma" in describing the unmediated relation of early Christian’s to God.The passion informing sects gives way to institutionalization and the corruption Luther would fight against as it manifested in pardons. Modern geopolitics has no monopoly on transaction. It’s the history of more than one “faith.” Perhaps early rather than primitive is the word that should be used for the kind of awe that’s untarnished by the scholastic impulse.

read the review ofThe Wormhole Society by Francis levy and Joseph Silver in The East Hampton Star