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Why don’t we culturally seem to “remember” that the experience of being a child is (among other things) one of profound cosmological disorientation and existential confusion?

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Marras

@WeftOfSoul

Jun 17, 2020

"Baby souls" 2020. I was first enlightened at six years old, trying to figure out how souls and identities work. 1/3 #identity #humanbiology #identicaltwins #originalface #babysoulsinheaven #enlightenment

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I love this like I loved my illustrated astronomy books

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like I loved sitting in the back of the car on a family road trip, looking out the window, just trying to wrap my mind around the idea that asking what came before the Big Bang is meaningless, because it's the beginning of time

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I believed that time went on forever in *both*directions (past and future), and it was a favorite belief of mine that I revisited often to try to wrap my head around. I’m actually somewhat miffed at the idea time had a beginning but perhaps not an end, that sounds wrong.

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I remember being extremely confused about how I moved my body and spent many hours laying there, slowly moving, to try to figure it out

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I thought “God” - the sentient entity people debated the existence of - was an omniscient will that controlled everyone’s actions and movements. That sounded wrong. I was pretty sure I was controlling my actions and movements, not a separate omniscient force.