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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 ........:-
:......... you. .........:
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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, ......:-:=
$=:-:..... the best and worst things are both .....:-:=$
#$=:-:.... within hearing range. everything else ....:-:=$#
##$=:-:... is forgotten. ...:-:=$##
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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 .........:
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