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The one Reality takes manifold names and forms as a result of human ignorance. It is one and the same Thing that a Bhakta calls God, a Jnani calls Brahman, a Shakta calls Shakti, an Atheist calls Nature, a Scientist calls Force or Energy, a Christian calls Father in Heaven,
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“Consciousness is always a spatialization in which the diachronic is turned into the synchronic, in which what has happened in time is excerpted and seen in side-by-sideness” Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com), 2000-
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Peach Blossoms, Des Moines, Iowa
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The tulips I mentioned earlier.
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Kind of fascinating to think that these characters whom I’ve known all my life, whom I think of as childhood friends, can be coded to be happy, healthy, unmasked adult autistics in a loving relationship. Like, it’s amazing that someone could create characters in a children’s show
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“Consciousness is the metaphrand when it is being generated by the paraphrands of our verbal expressions. But the functioning of consciousness is, as it were, the return journey. Consciousness becomes the metaphier full of our past experience, constantly and selectively operating on such unknowns as future actions, decisions, and partly
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The tulips are up! Yay spring!
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“When we introspect (a metaphor of seeing into something), it is upon this metaphorical mind-space which we are constantly renewing and ‘enlarging’ with each new thing or relation consdousized.” Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com)
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Sigh. The moment you realize you picked the wrong app for the project, and now you’ve got to stop and rework things.
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I’ve got three books that I’m actively studying right now: The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind; The Courage to Be Disliked; and Unmasking Autism. I’ve been playing with different ways to take notes and think about the content, and have settled on
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“We rather assume these ‘spaces’ without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious and what it is to assume consciousness in others.” Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com), 2000-08-15.
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Went back to my childhood neighborhood. It’s a chilly, rainy day, and I stopped outside the house that I haven’t lived in for almost 40 years, and it sounded so familiar it gave me goose bumps.