Laurence Shorter
Thoughts and essays from the emergent property which is my mind-body complex, on leadership, creativity and why life is worth it
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Living the double life (opens the original)
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The older I get the more I feel like not hiding aspects of myself that I used to curate heavily. And one of the things I’ve spent years hiding is the fact that I am a left-field, life-long, hard core spiritual seeker. I like astrology, I use tarot cards and iChing, I believe in serendipity and the power of the mind to manifest material realities; I can talk for hours about unconscious archetypes; I experience the separation between myself and other people as permeable rather than concrete; and,
Tomorrow never comes (opens the original)
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I started to understand recently that not everyone has music playing in their heads all the time. At any given moment, you can ask me what’s playing and I can check my brain and tell you. It’s as if, in parallel to my noisy mind commentary, there’s a subliminal soundtrack running the background to my life movie.Sometimes this track is a brain worm I don’t like that lodged in my memory and won’t get out – it may even wake me in the night or accompany my fumbling visits to the bathroom. I remember
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