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He considered Descates’ axiom I think therefore I am, to be an unbalanced statement “illustrating precisely the opposite of what I believe to be true about the origins of mind and about the relation between mind and body” (Damasio. R R 1994). Damasio wrote that Western Medicine is fragmented from reality and dissatisfaction is likely to grow “as the spiritual crisis of Western society deepens” (Damasio. R R 1994). In 1989 the Hollywood Thalian Mental Health Organization launched the Science-Art Centre’s book Two Bobs Worth to the city of Los Angeles. The book’s condemnation of Descartes’ mechanistic philosophy concluded that “our obsession with materialistic forces was dehumanizing to the point where we had effectively passed a death sentence upon ourselves’ (Pope. R. and Todonai. R. 1988).