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Sensory Flashbacks, Sacred Places, and Environmentalism
Posted on May 24, 2008
Has some sight, some sound, some smell, some taste, some feeling out in nature ever literally stopped time and sent you back in time? Has something purely sensual in the natural world opened up a wormhole and transported you through space to someplace else?I am sure that many of you reading this have had some physical-mental sensory flashback, as I am calling it, through the time machine of your sensual body. French novelist Marcel Proust gives a superb account of this very phenomenon in the opening overture to his grand encyclopedia of sensuality A la recherch du temps perdu (In...
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