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“We defend so cautiously against our egoically limited experiences, states Laing in The Politics of Experience, that it is not surprising to see people grow defensive and panic at the idea of experiencing ego-loss through the use of drugs or collective experiences. But there is nothing pathological about ego-loss, Laing adds; quite the contrary. Ego-loss is the experience of all mankind, "of the primal man, of Adam and perhaps even [a journey] further into the beings of animals, vegetables and minerals." No age, Laing concludes, has so lost touch with this healing process as has ours. Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalytic approach serves to begin such a healing process. Its major task is to destroy the oedipalized and neuroticized individual dependencies through the forging of a collective subjectivity, a nonfascist subject—anti-Oedipus. Anti-Oedipus is an individual or a group that no longer functions in terms of beliefs and that comes to redeem mankind, as Nietzsche foresaw, not only from the ideals that weighed it down, "but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell-stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and antinihilist. . . He must come one day.—”
― Mark Seem, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“According to Dr. Barnes, a healthy body temperature should be 97.8 degrees Farenheit (36.6 degrees Celsius) upon rising. Body temperature should steadily rise during the day and peak mid-day to about 98.6 degrees F (37 degrees C). Anything below that could indicate a sign of a sluggish metabolism.”
― Kate Deering, How to Heal Your Metabolism: Stop blaming aging for your slowing metabolism

“For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is—to live dangerously.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

“Music, in particular, can have a powerful effect on INTPs, stirring their Fe in what can feel like divine and powerful ways.”
― A.J. Drenth, The INTP: Personality, Careers, Relationships, & the Quest for Truth and Meaning