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Human beings (domesticated primates) are symbol-using creatures; which means, as the pioneer semanticist, Korzybski, noted, that those who rule symbols, rule us.
Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
“And that’s the deciding factor. We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. They win.”
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman
Really, none of this is new. Five thousand years ago, early yoga practitioners were tinkering with embodied cognition to prompt higher states of awareness. If simply standing like Wonder Woman for a few minutes is enough to produce meaningful changes in our hormonal profile, imagine what practicing a full sequence of yoga postures every morning would do. “There’s all this evidence that [movement sequences] have an impact on stress,”11 Peter Strick, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Brain Institute, writes in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “it has an effect on how you project yourself and how you feel.”
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
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