"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."
-William Irwin Thompson
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"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.“
-William Irwin Thompson
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"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."
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