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Neck Hairs of the Shapeshifter (w/ Simon Thakur)

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Shape Shifting Mythologies and Practices Speak Directly to the Separation That Human Beings Feel From the Natural World

If we don't spend time consciously feeling all of the changes happening inside our chest between our organs you know washing through our insides if we don't pay attention to it we lose the ability to feel it. Our ability to empathize with other beings is massively reduced because the empathizing happens in the feeling of our body. Shape shifting mythologies and practices speak directly to the separation that human beings feel from the natural world. We are the shape shifters not quite fish, birds or deer not quite bear but capable through the great traverse of the shape shifts of reuniting with each of the many animal and vegetal and mineral bodies that comprises us of finding our way home. There is a deep

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