What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible.What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?
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