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Matt Colborn's avatar

A good analysis. I especially like your comments about embodiment. Huxley's utopia Island is also worth reading, and in fact I discuss both in my book What Lies Beyond. In Island, Huxley has the inhabitants of his utopia take psychedelics for healing and to access mystical states of reality. Similarly, I think that mystical states might have things to teach us about reconnecting to the natural world and each other.

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ArtDeco's avatar

Hello Rachel and commentators. This was a very different essay from my expectation, and I really appreciate it.

I believe part of the west's collective treatment of the natural world is our unacknowledged extreme biophobia, and more pointedly our fears about sex and death .

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