To repeat myself, I personally think that trauma is a key to much of impossible thinking: something has to “split open” the person or social ego before such a subject can know and see in these new ways. Sexual arousal can do that, sometimes. Psychedelics can do that, more often and more reliably. So can car accidents, heart attacks, terrible falls, and racist social systems, sometimes. And that splitting is seldom pretty, much less socially helpful. It is often near deadly, or just deadly. It seriously compromises or even destroys its host or medium. And yet, and yet . . . not always.
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