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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 #††-......
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....:-=*## 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.       ####*†=-:.
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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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