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lil · 3974 days ago · link · · parent · post: Not All Women: A Reflection On Being a Musician and Female

I prefer the former I prefer "to come out of" the universe as well. I prefer to imagine I am connected "the fabric of the universe" rather than deposited into it. This relates back to the original sentence regarding connection and your statement that a feeling of connection "is all anyone really wants."

I suspect there are some cultures (including historically earlier ones) in which the connection to the universe is embedded in the collective consciousness and/or unconsciousness. There are also some individuals whose presence almost creates an awareness of connection to the universe.

This conversation reminds me of Thoreau, who said here:

Men frequently say to me, "I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially." I am tempted to reply to such — This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

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