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In a sense, bicameral humans were more transcendental and evolved than we are today, but they were too ethereal and vulnerable. They lacked individual agency and adaptivity. Today, we have plenty of that, but no collectivity and no ability to access the transcendent, which has created a crisis of meaning and an epidemic of anxiety and mental health issues amongst the masses. Only crazy people could imagine that empiricism and materialism, involving the total repudiation of the metaphysical and t
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― The Second Mind: Accessing Your Divine Powers
― The Second Mind: Accessing Your Divine Powers
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Harold—please—" She was sick, crying. The irrevocable fact of murder was in her heart forever.
"Get used to it," Harold said brutally. He flung the tent on the back of his cycle and began to tie it down. "It's over for them down there, and it's over for us, and it's over for everybody that died in the plague. God went off on a celestial fishing trip and He's going to be gone a long time. It's totally dark. The dark man's in the driver's seat now. Him. So get used to it."
She made a squeaking,
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― The Stand
― The Stand