Ammons was out of options; he let himself get swallowed. “It was the most unbelievable sensation, this thing I knew was impossible, that just couldn’t work, I got to watch myself piece it together. I could feel all of the river’s reactions and could feel myself melding with them. My goal was to do this inconceivable thing, to be a drop of water. Surviving Wasson’s was proof I had done it. From that point on, I knew the impossible was possible.” The sensation Ammons is describing is the “paradox of control,” another of flow’s defining characteristics. The paradox is real power in places we
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