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What Do We Know?

David Price
3 min readSep 19, 2020

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“The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.” — Michael Meade

“The single biggest thing I learned was from an indigenous elder of Cherokee descent, Stan Rushworth, who reminded me of the difference between a Western settler of “I have rights” and an indigenous mindset of “I have obligations.” Instead of thinking that I am born with rights, I choose to think that I am born to serve past, present and future generations, and the planet itself.” Author unknown

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“So, what we will be slowly going toward is the capacity to inwardly feel the presence of viruses within. For, actually, the human body, and thus the human being, is composed of something like 90% viruses. I would say that they are the most spiritual element of the body, and function as the primary elements of spiritual-body evolution. It is because of viruses that the body, which we, from our strictly outer mode of consciousness, see as only biological and just “is what it is”. Standard medicine has captured the presences of viruses as being the primary ‘enemy of biological life’

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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