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#@#&$%:~~. you can tap into the cave wherever you .~~:%$@#
&%%~...... go. with training, or with drugs... ......~%%&
&%:~~~~~.. some people are always like this. ..~~~~~:%&
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###&$%:~~. the cave is built in, an intrinsic .~~:%$##
##@#&$:~~. animal part. it's come to be associated .~~:$@##
#@#&$%:~~. with the lizards, and it's true that .~~:%$@#
##$::~~... they are very close to it in their ...~~::$##
@#&$$%:~~. lives. but as long as youre an animal, .~~:%$$@
#$:~~..... it's always there, changing shape with .....~~:$#
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&%:~~..... .....~~:%&
@@#&$%:~~. the mind is good at relativizing .~~:%$@@
@&%:~~.... things, placing them within its current ....~~:%&@
&$$%~~.... frame of reference. and the lizard ....~~%$$&
#@#&$%:~~. brain is good at absolutes. in the end, .~~:%$@#
&&$:~..... the best and worst things are both .....~:$&&
#&&$%%:~~. within hearing range. everything else .~~:%%$&
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@@#&$%:~~. everything is specific, and local. .~~:%$@@
##$::~.... there are no generalizations. there is ....~::$##
#@#&$%:~~. no object permanence. what you .~~:%$@#
@#&&$%:~~. experience is acute, ineffable, and you .~~:%$&@
&$%~~~.... need to act. every subsection of your ....~~~%$&
&%%%:~~... body has a consciousness and a voice. ...~~:%%%&
&%::~..... everything you see can also see you, .....~::%&
&%:~~~.... through the pupil in your eye. the ....~~~:%&
#$%~~~~~~. stones are slippery. the air is inside .~~~~~~%$#
@#&&$%:~~. you. .~~:%$&@
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