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Fire in the Spine

Awakening

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One day while working I had a sensation in the base of my spine, it felt like fire. It shot upwards through my spinal column and exploded inside my head. I lost consciousness, sometime later I woke up.

 

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One day I woke up to discover all I had been doing was thinking that I had been thinking.

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All of our so called thinking is just that, so called.

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People talk a great deal about feeling without knowing what feels right.

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The chances are if you try to get it right it will go wrong. Should you go wrong and see yourself going wrong, then it may without any doing on your part come right. 

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There is no guarantee that a child is born with good use. Bad use can start in the womb, even for that matter before the womb.

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The theory of evolution is not one I subscribe to.

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If people knew what they had to give up they would never begin. Fortunately they don't know so they do begin.

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Patrick J. Macdonald