Breathing

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"But it's not a simple story. It needs to be unpacked very carefully. Like a bomb." -- Kurt Andersen, True Believers • t.me/IntuitiveNarrative/121

"In any event, for the purposes of this book, I am extremely reliable. I have files.

Since long before I went to law school, for half a century now -- half a century! -- I've saved every diary and journal, every letter I ever received, catechism worksheets, term papers, restaurant receipts, train schedules, ticket stubs, snapshots, Playbills.

At the beginning, my pack-ratting impulse was curatorial, as if I were director of the Karen Hollaender Museum and Archive.

I know that sounds narcissistic, but when I was a kid, it seemed like a way to give the future me a means of knowing what the past and perpetually present me was actually like.

Prophylactic forensics, you could say."

-- Karen Hollaender from True Believers by Kurt Andersen

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Charles Eisenstein:

' I am not in the business of establishing the truth or falsity of what are called “conspiracy theories.” If pressed, I am fully capable of entering the Cartesian matrix, the myth of objective reality, and opine on which among those theories I think are true. I’m as capable as the next person of examining evidence, marshaling arguments, and making a case. But for many years now, I have felt alien to that territory, alien to the field of narrative warfare in which each party tries to ontologically dominate the others by establishing what is true and what is false. ' (...)

' History, it is said, is written by the victors; narrative warriors also embrace the converse: that whoever writes the story shall be the victor. All true, as far as it goes. The question is, What is the nature of such a victory? What can be achieved by having everyone agree to your version of reality? And what cannot be achieved that way?
One thing that cannot be achieved that way is the healing of our world. ' (...)

' Society’s dominant belief systems are disintegrating. Cracks radiate out uncontrollably from the original “crack in the cosmic egg” that Joseph Chilton Pearce described fifty years ago. Restricting our gaze only to the intact fragments of shell suspended on the membrane, we may well convince ourselves still that we know what is real, and what is not. A small and fleeting comfort. Better now to shift the gaze toward the cracks synchronicity and the unexplainable point to.
Shining through them is an intelligence and a mystery so profound as to make one’s own knowledge seem like a bubble of foam on the sea. ' (...)

' Are you willing to put down what you think you know? Are you willing to make room for the impossible? ' (...)

' ...The world as we know it is woven from stories, agreements, symbols. A nation is but a story. A border is a story. Law is a story, Money is a story. Property is a story. They are as real as we make them. Money in particular is the very essence of “practicality,” in matters of which one must be “realistic.” Yet its power comes wholly through agreements about the meaning of symbols. Beyond these obviously symbolic systems, our sense of medical reality, scientific reality, and material reality is also more conditional on agreements than the objectivity-steeped mind can recognize. Therefore, to claim our full power as creators, we must escape our captivity from the stories we have mistaken for reality. Then we can discover new stories that are fit habitation for whom we want to become. '

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“You are in the midst of a choose-your-own-adventure-novel you may even have seen coming.” — t.me/IntuitiveHeartbeat/42 ❤️‍🔥

"Do not chase others as if their deviation from what you expect confounds and offends you. Respect their very different experience and learn about it as you are gifted with it — as you learn to respect them. That's regenerative energy. What you decide next determines how your path will unfold." — t.me/IntuitiveHeartbeat/42 ✨

"In fact, we were wrecked.
In fiction we found resurrection.
Then fiction became fact, as it does, and facts turned out to have been fictions."
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"One of the things that consistently amazes me is how deep we were in that hypnotic physiology, and none of us knew it.
Or if some of us may have had an inkling... we could not do something about it.
We noticed ourselves trying in this way or that way, and failing — inscrutably. What was going on? We would ask ourselves this.
We would try not to blame ourselves, we would even try not to blame others... and yet blame seemed to be the name of the game.
Eventually we would be devoured by the teeth, tongue, and palate of ambient weaponized blame.
In the maw of the demiurge, we flailed our limbs and strove to swim.
She shut her great jaws upon us — there was nothing for it — and gnashed or whole, we were swallowed."
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"All persons, places, and events in this book are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author.
No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine."
— Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut • t.me/IntuitiveStory/690

"They themselves had been granted deliverance, and with it came the duty to deliver others." — Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor (2018, Hachette Publishers) • hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laini-taylor/muse-of-nightmares/9780316341691 • t.me/IntuitiveIntensive/296

' As Fern expressed the philosophy conversationally, in its simplest terms:
“You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh, fine, fine — couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”
This philosophy did not sadden him. It did not make him brood.
It made him heartlessly watchful. '
— The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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' "The reason I told Ransom K. Fern to give you this letter only if your luck turned bad is that nobody thinks or notices anything as long as his luck is good. Why should he?
So have a look around for me, boy. And if you go broke and somebody comes along with a crazy proposition my advice is to take it. You might just learn something when you’re in a mood to learn something." '
— The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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' Life was like that, Unk told himself tentatively — blanks and glimpses, and now and then maybe that awful flash of pain for doing something wrong. '
— The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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' ...and a system of psychiatry that took the ideals of Martian society as noble common sense. '
— The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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