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130. Charles Foster | Inhabit the World

Language of God

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Was It Any Easier Than the Animal's Perspective?

In being human you attempt to live like a paleolithic and Neolithic human kind of in the same way that you attempt to living like a badger in a fox. Realizing this gets right at the question of when we became human, what a human is. But having to enter the mind of an upper paleolithic hunter-gatherer meant on the one hand abandoning my modern humanity. And the tension between those two demands I found very difficult when I was researching this book.

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