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escape all criteria of reflection known and practiced until then, to develop in other directions and according to other logics, always seeking the shortest trajectory for the least effort – and the earth atmosphere was becoming loaded with pullulating abbreviated exchanges.

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In Her city now cohabited the “veterans”, the pioneers of the first hour, with the less ancient who had rallied a demanding adventure during the last two decades of the previous millenium (but science kept discovering further millenia to the history of mankind), and the new arrivals since. Relationships were often placed under ths sign of misunderstanding – differences of language and meaning, differences in aspiration, hope and commitment, differences in the appreciation of the questions posed by existence, weighed on a communication that was thus reduced to those preoccupations which could be shared. Some of the ancient ones would accept or elect a role, others would be content pursuing their own practice and sadhane and yet others would tend to withdraw and move apart from most collective sites or occasions, experiencing a sort of distress before the constant influx and import of methods and approaches not born of an actual common learning on the ground – which yet imposed themselves, demanding an opening onto the world.

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There exists a kind of ethic of the soul = there can be no exhange of money between members of a crew, of a fraternity on a quest; one may not lie in

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