This is one of those pieces that took time to settle before I could write it.
It gathered—quietly—until it began to take shape.

This essay lives somewhere between structure and fragility,
between a world that holds together
and a self that must learn to affirm it anyway.

Fechner. Tillich.
Two ways of thinking unity—one serene, one trembling.

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https://somatichermeneutics.substack.com/p/between-mind-and-being

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Gustav Fechner wrote in 1861: "One thinks that the fact that machines are replacing life more and more, that railways and telegraphs spread over the earth ... if this continues, only one of two options is possible; either all life will perish into the machines, or all machines will eventually merge into a life of the earth. But because the first can't be, it can only be the second... "

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