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Somatic Existentialism (opens the original)
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1.4: "The body is a great wisdom, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. An instrument of your body is also your small wisdom, my brother, which you call “spirit” — a little instrument and plaything of your great wisdom."For the philosophers among us, here’s your existential crisis - the mind-body problem revisited as biological tuning forks. The question is whether this piece supports that we are free or not. Feel free to share your thought
The Value of a Choice (opens the original)
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The Dialectic of Subtraction (opens the original)
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In the middle of art school, I came across my favorite painting of all time: Whistler’s Mother. It was dark, had been shunned, and was hanging on a rare loan exhibition in the Frick Mansion in NYC when I stumbled upon it. Critics of his era were notoriously hostile to his minimalism—with John Ruskin famously accusing him of flinging a pot of paint in the public's face with his abstract style—and painting his mother in such darkness made the feeling visceral. My dark heart loved it, specifically
You Can Call Me Al (opens the original)
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Part 3: The Rise of Black Swan Medicine (opens the original)
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