The Impossible Contagion
Few people understand what I will speak of as the active deepening of stillness. For example, one can be so still that this process starts to deepen of its own accord, drawing other beings or even places into stillness with it. And by stillness, I do not mean sterility. I mean something like potential in its purer state, prior to differentiation — a movement toward that, which proceeds to become more and more still. This is a kind of active stillness, and it is a surprising thing to discover that there are forms and depths of stillness. Some of these can be understood to unlock modes of liberty (of consciousness) which are otherwise ordinarily inaccessible, or perhaps unavailable. Stillness is far deeper than one imagines. It is, apparently, infinitely deep.
I am insatiably curious about the nature of living beings, intelligence, language, and the origins of our species.
As a cognitive activist, my dream is that my work may contribute to our ability to understand the origins of our strange situation as modern humans, and assemble effective replacements for what our modern cultures are but the broken remnants and falsified costumes of.
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