Within ten seconds a four-year-old knows who is really present, and who is merely pretending. That knowledge needs no words.
Between the ages of four and twelve we teach the child not to trust what it knows within ten seconds. We call it upbringing.
It then takes a person thirty years of therapy to recover those same ten seconds.
An open thought, from an edition of ten articles on what has happened to the nervous system of Western humans — and on what we no longer teach our children.
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Ten articles on primal feeling, the triple brain, and the human we no longer train. Read-aloud function. Free. No advertising.
To Edition 3 on openvizier.orgOr, if you know one person for whom this edition seems written — send them the address openvizier.org/en/editie-3/. One person. That is enough.