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I birdwalk around topics related to ‘states’ of awareness (but awareness isn’t a state and is not static), exploring wakefulness, dreaming, trance and language (our formally representational overlay on experience).

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“Long ago, it was not possible to have ‘separate’ kinds of behavior or activity. Work was ceremony. Theater was … ritual, politics, sex, therapy, medicine, and a thing we have no world for. Long ago, these ‘separate things’ were not...

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“Our world, my dear friend, is not the world we are familiar with. And it never will be, again. Everything we ‘depended’ upon, is gone. The face of the future, especially our reliance on ‘luxuries’… medicine, the food supply…...

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“The jungle is their bomb shelter, except… the ‘bomb’ is what we call ‘civilization’.” — infraheard