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We in our culture are suffering under the disconnected disease. We do not see—indeed try to go the opposite direction—that all life is intertwined, one. So we try to treat one person’s dementia or other pathology separately from everyone he or she is connected with, which is all of us. We atomize persons, ripping them cord from cord from their family. Maybe if we could think systemically….

:- Doug.

Maybe it’s a metaphor, maybe it’s actually physical, maybe it’s a reality greater.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1611

Go further, sons and daughters of my sons, than I have gone: release the skies, release the stars, release the divinity only you can. Now: before you are ready. Then invite the daughters and sons of your daughters and sons to go out beyond you.

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That would make the doctors, hospitals, and researchers part of the disease. Last century the physicists found themselves part of what they were studying.

:- Doug.

The disconnected disease

:- Doug.

Consider slowness and the ravages of speed. Going deeper ought to exercise the brain at least as well as going faster. The difficulty would be to keep at it. The pressure of the timed exercise encourages stress, which works against brain health. There is another state which encourages effort without stress: we ought to enlist flow.

:- Doug.