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If you want to collaborate with another organization, know that you are “Out”. Their leader or leaders are “High.” Initially, it seemed to me that I should ally with the High player in a given empire. They are, after all, usually the founder of the relevant organization, and tend to be the public face of that organization, as well.
While this is the obvious strategy, it is not the most effective one. High tends to move slow, as a bottleneck – like the king in chess, they move slow but are the “point” of the game. There is usually a “queen,” a Mid player who can move fast and get things done.
The Art of Alliances – Tasshin
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What we call “life” is a general condition which exists to some degree of other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city. And further: The key to this idea is that every part of space— every connected region of space, small or large— has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing and measurable.
Christopher Alexander: Generating a Living World
Bonnitta Roy
The notion that "reality" is a noun, a solid thing like a brick or a baseball bat, derives from the evolutionary fact that our nervous systems normally organize the dance of energy into such block-like "things," probably as instant bio-survival cues. Such "things," however, dissolve back into energy dances cesses, or verbsprowhen the nervous system is synergized with certain drugs or transmuted by yogic or shamanic exercises or aided by scientific instruments. In both mysticism and physics, there is general agreement that "things" are constructed by our nervous systems and that "realities" (plural) are better described as systems or bundles of energy-functions
Cosmic Trigger I
Robert Anton Wilson
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