“They obliterated a framework around the consciousness. A framework used by the brain, the mind, to place a person within a reality. Take, for example, the heat of a room. The feel of one’s clothes on the skin. Gravity. These are things acting on us, of course, at all times, yet we don’t have to concentrate on all of them at once to feel their presence, to be a conscious mind within these constraints. That was the framework. Something happened to that framework when one commuted. It fell apart. It transformed in ways we couldn’t predict. Some were waking up, telling us about visions they’d had
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