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Stephen Buhner

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The linear brain cannot perceive wholes—or insides. And the more the brain is used as the primary organ of perception, the more life is reduced. It becomes merely an expression of mechanical forces with no intelligence or purpose, and all life forms are judged and valued depending on their capacity for this kind of analytical processing. Descartes’ famous dictum, “I think, there I am,” affirms as well its opposite: If you do not think, you are not.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Henry David Thoreau

People who intuitively know the importance of feelings, who use the heart as an organ of perception, receive little cultural support for this ancient mode of cognition. Their observations are routinely denigrated, and nonlinear thinkers have spent centuries attempting to prove that there is, in fact, another route to perception of the world than that offered up by the brain.

Stephen Harrod Buhner ~ The Secret Teachings of Plants; The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature p 120

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You'll probably like this, it provides a timeline of Christianity's adoption via the sword https://substack.com/home/post/p-142272958

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