A list devoted
to the exploration of the ideas of Jan Cox
(1938-2005), philosopher
and post-modern mystic.
"What I want you to see is that there are continual biochemical alterations taking place. You pet the dog,and the dog reacts to it. You pet your sexual partner, and they react. You stick out your tongue at somebody. You remember someone in a harsh manner. You take all of this as being some kind of emotional, personal occurrence, or you perceive it as a kind of intellectual process taking place. What you do not see is energy constantly being transferred from one person to another. It can take place through words, or internally through memory. It is a recycling of energy, in the living organism called Life.
"Biochemical alterations are constantly happening. At Line-level consciousness, it is nearly impossible to remember that everything you feel, everything you think, every way you behave is a biochemical reaction. And it is even more nearly impossible to remember that the thing apparently thinking, feeling, moving and behaving is likewise an absolute biochemical process."
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