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Some of us have seen birds (probably almost all of them are male) attacking their reflection in a mirror. For billions of life-years on Earth, there were neither windows nor mirrors. While our own consciousness is not precisely a mirror… the analogy is useful to...

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A very interesting toy. But it’s origins are stranger… more astonishing… and more familiar than we can possibly imagine. In the same way an actual kiss … and an imaginal kiss … while happening at once… are not either or. And never...

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https://organelle.medium.com/truth-why-context-matters-95f52ddb188d”A great deal of the ‘information’ we are subject to in our time partakes of an ancient tradition: the making of truth-claims. Often this is done in either a haphazard or manipulative...

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https://medium.com/repcog-intelligence/on-the-lethal-results-of-representation-d355587728e7″So it is that our governments are actually forms of anti-society. The structures take over our active, meaningfully mutual recognition, response and participation....

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https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/box-c9a573ca7283The US (and perhaps nearly all modern ‘nations’) are Potemkin Villages (and ‘social media’ is existing as and expressing a network of similar structures) … whose primary activities involve...

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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/foxyfolklorist/why-folklorists-hate-joseph-campbells-work/”Campbell’s approach tends to direct the reader back to themselves and their own culture. By saying, “hey, it’s really just the same story over and over, we...