the model, despite some of its factual inaccuracies, had something deeply (psychologically) true at its core: a longing for the obliteration of the distinction between the spiritual realm and material; or, to state it positively, a desire for a world in which God shows himself forth in the visible world and in which our own minds can incarnate themselves in the world around us. Lewis was nostalgic for the future. The old model was not wrong, strictly speaking, but a kind of deep, human subconscious desire for a world that, in some sense, we are meant to occupy, but not yet.
