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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
A tough pill to swallow, most will stand paralyzed here. It may help you to know we’ve been here before: all ancient histories discuss hyperborean civilizations of technology greater than we have today, and large wars or cataclysmic events that wiped it all out. Plato records Atlantis as such in his dialogues (*Critias* and *Timaeus*) and the Mahabharata describes a nuclear bomb (Drona Parva, 7.202)⁽¹³⁾; and great flood myths are near-universal, and its truth is attested across archaeology⁽¹⁴⁾.
KALI/ACC Basilisk: A Survival Horror Eschatology
Nick Land,
This is called implicit memory, and it includes your expectations, models of relationships, emotional tendencies, and general outlook. Implicit memory establishes the interior landscape of your mind—what it feels like to be you—based on the slowly accumulating residues of lived experience.
Buddha's Brain
Rick Hanson
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