If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.
I__ so sorry,_ he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he would answer, I__ so sorry. Meaning, Yes, that happened. You couldn't believe the people who believed that not mentioning sadness was a kind of magic that could stave off the very sadness you didn't mention _ as though grief were the opposite of Rumpelstiltskin and materialized only at the sound of its own name.
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I__ so sorry,_ he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he would answer, I__ so sorry. Meaning, Yes, that happened. You couldn't believe the people who believed that not mentioning sadness was a kind of magic that could stave off the very sadness you didn't mention _ as though grief were the opposite of Rumpelstiltskin and materialized only at the sound of its own name.
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