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at least on some level, to actually feel separate, you must also actually feel connected, for how can you be separate from something that you are not already connected to? And how can you connect to something that you are not already separate from?

are the “two broad genres” that Maud Ellmann suggests

I understand these books as commonly defined by an experimentation with different forms of autobiographical acts for the purpose of gaining self-insight and promoting self-development. They explore various mark-making techniques that might make the inner world better known, visible for observation, and ripe for analysis.

It was like something that had been foretold, something out of Aesop, both metaphorical and hysterical, like everything, I guess.

The knife is the weapon of the fugitive, the assassin, the secret courier, the turncoat—in short, the spy.

I am arguing that precognition is just memory in reverse, or what we might for convenience call premory

There are good evolutionary reasons why strong emotion might play an important role in precognition (or James Carpenter’s “first sight”): It needs to orient us to new information relevant to our survival so that we can update our knowledge about the world in a fruitful way.

Aharonov and his colleague Jeff Tollaksen write that time-symmetric reformulations of quantum mechanics change the meaning of uncertainty from ‘capriciousness’ to exactly what is needed in order that the future can be relevant to the present, without violating causality, thereby providing a new perspective on the question ‘Why does God play dice?’

The precognitive brain seems to have a voracious appetite for thoughts and emotions about survival and close calls of one sort or another.