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Justin Wilford’s Myth

The Myths That Make Us

CHAPTER

The Manimal and the Animal and So What Is the Thing That Got Me When I Was Four?

Graham Greene talks about his childhood fascination with the idea of transformation. He says there's a primal fear in us that will be overwhelmed by the animal that is us. We're traumatized all of us that our only connection to the animal is when it's triggered, he says. As we start to heal you can recognize that like ecstasy not the drug but the feeling is something that is so primal and it's terrifying It completely overwhelms the mind and bliss transcendence transcendence rapture these are also aspects of the animal body in us.

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