I think there's one other thing that really struck me as this idea of external paradise. If you go to travel agency, every place is presenting itself as a Shangri-La or paradise. And in those days, the little lanes of Bali were full of shacks selling masks. I realized, I didn't have a clue what was going on, and that indeed Eden is the place with a serpent inside it. That something much stronger was happening around me than I could get a grasp on.

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