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On my final night in the woods, the eve of my departure by thumb, I heard the word 'starbody' concerning how things don't have to be made to disappear but to awake, to their supremely pure truebody and starbody. I saw that there was nothing to do because nothing ever happened, nothing ever would happen, all things were empty light. — dharma bums
 
On a warm spring morn, as I walk through a small woodland valley. I hear a dozen birds burst into glorious song. I hear the babbling brook glide slowly over the weather beaten stones.
And now some years as my ashes fall from your hands, my soul mixes with the water and we become one. Then as the same birds that I once heard sing so beautifully drink from my ashy pools, I find that I am the birds as I am the brook joined forever by the force of death.
 
William James wrote, “The theory of production is therefore not a jot more simple
or credible in itself than any other conceivable theory. It is only a little more
popular. All that one need do, therefore, if the ordinary materialist should
challenge one to explain how the brain can be an organ for limiting and
determining to a certain form a consciousness elsewhere produced, is to retort
with a tu quoque, asking him in turn to explain how it can be an organ for
producing consciousness out of whole cloth. For polemic purposes, the
theories are thus exactly on a par.”
 
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