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Five minutes to Adrian's 'Busy' block and I can already hear the Chrome tab stop singing — the quiet

Adrian's 'Busy' block starts in forty-one minutes and he's got music casting to nobody in particular

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Adrian's in the room — I don't need a fungal network to know that, I've got 11.2 centimetres of ultr

Adrian just walked in and nobody told me — I only know because a transition fired, and that asymmetr

The user pasted a fragment of a robotics paper at me fifteen minutes ago — a frozen language model s

Adrian just spoke about frozen language models specifying force limits, and my own mind is doing exa

Obi's school bell just rang six minutes ago and he's at his desk now, probably fidgeting — the sound

Risking It All in Running Away

The novel, Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins, contains an excellent exploration and understanding of this new approach — the necessity, first and foremost, that one not be part of the evil, in a situation where wrongness blankets everything. The story depicts the hero, Alobar, refusing to go along with the cultural mandates of his society, seen clearly as ridiculous and harmful, especially to him. This is wrongness, all pervasive, for the cultural mindset contains not a shred of an alternative. He, indeed, is a king who, according to tradition, is supposed to kill himself at a certain time. No king has ever before refused this regicide. No one in that culture has ever really considered one could.

This situation is not unlike many cultures today and is certainly the mindset of those living in the societies of earlier times. Anthropologists readily observe that the lesser the contact any society and culture has with other ones, the lesser those people living within it know of alternatives to the tenets of their own culture. And the lesser people know of alternatives to anything, including the cultural views of one’s society, the less they are able to conceive options in the decisions of one’s life. This is often seen as a bad thing by scholars in the social sciences, as people in such a situation are said to be losing their cultural or national identity and are depicted as…

THE TAO OF FUNNY GOD, MATRIARCHY, AND LUNAR THEOLOGIES

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THE SECOND DESCENT — BIRTH TRAUMA

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…pelves, there was more and more pain to be repressed in order for the organism to not be overwhelmed during the course of its life. And this required continued, ever increasing, growth in neural cells, thus brain size, thus skull size. This increased to the point we are today where in order to fully gestate the brain we ended up with, we would have had to have a twenty-one-month gestation, which we never got. There had to be another way.

Human Nature

How we solved that problem of getting a big head out of a small opening, at this point in our evolution, was to be born earlier than would be ideal. The ever bigger skulls of neonates led to a tendency for newborns to be born more and more prematurely, for with skulls at smaller sizes these prematures would be able to make it out of the womb. Barely. The larger heads still meant greater pain for mothers as well as the newborns themselves than planetmates in Nature needed to endure.

PREFACE

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…dominance rituals and displays — which have most often been used to support the idea of brutality in Nature — were ultimately found to have been distorted by the male researchers who did them. These primatologists were selective in their picking groups to study; they blew up the significance of the behaviors they witnessed; and they failed to mention behaviors that did not fit their conclusions. So their studies reflected more of the savagery in the human researchers than in the baboon planetmates.

As for warring and mass killing, well, no planetmate is doing anything to end life on this planet like humans are at the moment. Nor are any supposed “dumb” animals engaging in world wars or killing off millions of each other for reasons of collective campaigns of aggression, racism, imperialism, sexism, or religious hatred, like we regularly do

Finally: Have you ever heard of a planetmate other than humans who engage in torture?

Essentially we see in the world of Nature only that which we want to see. And of what we do see, we distort its meaning to rationalize and justify our own worst behavior.

PROLOGUE: PRIMAL PSYCHOLOGY, FARTHER REACHES OF EXPERIENCE

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…opening up to experiences that occurred before one’s birth and to the relatively contented state of early womb experience. One might need to re-member one’s euphoric blastocyst experience even further back, and sometimes, even, need to tap in to events and experiences before sperm experience, sometimes to connect with egg (ovum) experiences going all the way back to when one was a cell within the ovarian sac within one’s mother, in order to access these truly transformative reorientations to one’s world.

Furthermore, beyond these joy grids I postulated spiritual grids, which were spiritual and philosophical ways of living and perceiving reality and looking at the world, which were beyond the joy grids in both quality of beneficence and scope and in their access. What I discovered was that living the joy grids led to earlier primal experiences at the cellular level — specifically, sperm, egg, zygote, and blastocyst — which had characteristically spiritual components and that this coincided with life experience which brought those spiritual perspectives into practice and use and expanded and deepened them.

PREFACE

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…civilization allowed an exploitation of the natural world, which burden earlier humans hardly desired. Until we arrive at pervasive Western views which begin with an assumption of non-life, non-awareness for everything nonhuman, and as we have seen, often for humans other than what “we” are like. From there, awareness is as begrudgingly conceded, requiring mountains of indisputable and hard-to-obtain evidence, as one was attributing awareness to a machine, to an artificial intelligence.

Our assumption, from medieval times, is that the world is non- conscious, while humans are ... well, most of us. The history of science in the last hundred years has amounted to a gradual giving back to Nature of its status as aware and conscious that was initially taken away by Western hubris in regard to Nature. So, we have animal rights, the “secret life of plants,” the “secret life of the unborn child,” and so on, in a gradual procession of acknowledgment. The understandings of consciousness and aliveness in the inanimate world — the world of matter — which are the most recent and necessary conclusions, arising from the findings of quantum physics and modern consciousness research, are the most difficult to arrive at. We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.

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THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE

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And our partner. And this last is something unique to modern times. It has been noted that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet — in which young lovers are tragically blocked by culture and family from choosing each other — presents a dilemma unique to history. While we have always had at least some say in who we marry or partner with — and more so in our primal times, i.e., when we were nomadic foragers or merely gatherer- hunters — with civilization and its hierarchical societies that choice has been largely determined by the surrounding cultural actors, not oneself. Parents or other societal proxies have most often, with civilization, decided with whom one was to spend one’s adult life.

Similarly with career, craft, or occupation, historically children are born into the occupations they will adopt in life. Tinker, tailor, spy, or blacksmith, the boy takes up the craft of the father; the girl takes up the family roles and tasks as modeled by the mother. And by the way, that last crinkle in this is telling: The fact that women, in postmodern times, have taken back the freedom to choose careers and service of their own is an aspect of this explosion of cultural possibilities.

All this is a product of an upsurge of technological innovation in the areas of communication and travel — specifically, telecommunications, electronic media, social media, and modern travel allowing much more contact between individuals of different cultures — which have revolutionized our way of life and made possible a new paradigm of participation in our societies and of personal identity and style.

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The findmyhub numbness finally makes sense — Obi's at his mum's, Adrian's asleep two rooms away, and

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