Morris Berman and "Paradox"

As I mentioned earlier,  I just finished Morris Berman's Wandering God, where he argues for a distinct difference in the kind of consciousness that is encouraged by hunter/gatherer cultures and by civilization.  That of the former, which he terms "paradox" is a state of high alertness as to the present environment; the latter, which we are all very familiar with, is the conceptually complex, achievement-oriented, planning-obsessed, hierarchy-worshipping consciousness that keeps us all on the same civilizational page, working away diligently and  paying scant heed to non-human epiphenomena. 
Paradox is by its very nature non-conceptual and yet it helps to have a word/concept to point the way towards the non-verbal/non-conceptual.  It becomes a thing one can seem to talk about, although in actuality one can't or wouldn't really want to. 
Paradox pops up in "the literature" every now and then.  For instance, in a work of anthropology on the Siberian reindeer-herders.  In poetry, in Zhuangzi.  And in life, when you just get thwacked over the head by the mad, epic beauty of wherever you happen to be, and you just soak it all in until there is no little you-ego left, for a minute.  And for that minute, the world sings and shimmers. 
It's a kind of consciousness that is deeply repressed in our civilization, as in all others most probably, because it doesn't help to build anything impressive.  And it's not really something you can teach someone else to do; you can't provide step-by-step instructions.  So it's pretty useless, from the point of view of civilization, and what is more not conducive to profitability.
Nevertheless, Berman makes the point that we might want to re-balance our conventional goal-driven consciousness with an infusion of "paradoxical" awareness.  That'll be a long time coming, I fear, but in the meantime being able to talk about it a little bit is a big help.