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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 ..,~††##@#
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##††~,.... everything is specific, and local.       ....,~††##
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#@##††~,.. 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   ....,~††##
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