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Listening to Birds, You’re safe.
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Listening to birds reduces cortisol, slows your heart rate, and triggers parasympathetic calm. Why? Because for 100,000+ years, birdsong meant “you’re safe.” Your body still remembers.
~ Tallowtwins
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Walter Russell reimagined the very structure of reality. He argued that matter was not solid but crystallized light slowed by thought — that everything around us, from rocks to human bodies, was composed of light patterns, shaped by consciousness.
He believed the universe was fundamentally mental, not material, and that all things moved in rhythmic cycles — expansion and contraction, like breath. He dismissed opposites like good and evil as illusions, asserting instead that everything sought harmony and balance.
To Russell, death wasn’t an end but the release of compressed light returning to its source. Even time, he claimed, wasn’t linear, but a spiral where past, present, and future coexisted.
~ From ‘History Pictures’
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His name (irrelevant), his past (ridiculous), his future (mercifully postponed). What mattered now was the collection. Books with their spines cracked like the laughter of extinct librarians; orchids bred for no eye but his; moths pinned like commas in a fevered…
