Dark is the womb…

...that births all new being. To quote Ursula LeGuinn, "How you play is what you win." ...which might help us to understand why the age of protest and progress is coming to a close. Our problems have outgrown our solutions in the same way that our solutions are incorporated into the existing problems. Fighting even …

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Untamed Speech

...always a rage against the blind harmony of an anaesthetized life. Instead, a life amid the salient, the awkward, the pathologized; buffeted and discontent, at peace only in a rough sea.* Is it possible that the very flight away from our experience of pathology misses the beauty of its necessity, removing us from artful expression of …

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Secret Agent Man

  Possession The conceptual framing of one's experience into spatial designations of 'inner and outer,' 'self and other,' 'me and not me,' 'real and imaginary,' shape, categorize, which through the force of habit and time coagulates into an assumed identity referred to as 'me.' Inversely, out of all that remains, the discarded elements of raw experience become what is not …

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