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The Interconnected Universe
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt (Swedish, 1844–1920)
“I’ll depart this life as if I’m checking out of a hostel, not leaving home. We are given temporary lodgings on this earth, not a place that belongs to us.”
Robert Moss
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Wound Consciousness and Dionysus.
“The “wounded healer” does not mean merely that a person has been hurt and can empathize, which is too obvious and never enough to heal because he or she has been through an identical process, for this would not help unless the process had utterly altered consciousness. Let us remember that the “wounded healer” is not any human person, but a personification presenting a kind of consciousness. This kind of consciousness refers to mutilations and afflictions of the body organs that release the sparks of consciousness in these organs, resulting in a ORGAN or BODY-CONSCIOUSNESS.Healing comes then not because one is whole, integrated, and all together, but from a consciousness breaking through dismemberment.”
Puer Papers — James Hillman
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The defining challenge that humanity faces is remembering that interconnectedness with each other and the rest of life on Earth. Over a period of 28 years Brenda Dunne and Bob Jahn carried out experiments at Princeton University to explore how we interact non-locally with the world around us — from picking up information to…
