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"Perhaps we have to think like the snakes, even momentarily, in order to predict their actions and secure our position?"

I bet you could come up with some interesting correlations with Jung's Shadow in regards to this concept.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Classical Wisdom

"Wokism" in labeling can even cross species boundaries. In medicine, the current accepted practice is to call people formerly known as diabetics and hypertensives, "persons with diabetes" and "persons with hypertension," extending this to all medical and sociologic conditions. Imagine my surprise when at a recent endocrinology research conference, the trainee spoke of "rats with diabetes."

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