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Lorna
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I had a conversation with a friend of mine who has created a mobility device for disabled folks and her passion is the ‘sick care’ system and how the consensus reality of our society makes us unhappy and destroys the planet. She is as ‘radical’ a thinker as Josh, but in a different way. When I asked her to imagine a place in nature, she said ‘oh I close my eyes and I am there- dont need to go anywhere- its all in my head, available when I close my eyes’. she said ‘I am nature, I feel calm, my head settles and it feels like all my molecules are the same as nature, I am a tree, an ocean, I am one’. I was a bit stunned by this and her certainty gave me a sense of bewilderment because she didnt seem very emotional when speaking…but it lingered with me afterwards and I closed my eyes many times to see what she was saying and of course she is right- its imagination, available anytime.

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