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Katharine Kaufman's avatar

I'm catching up. I love how the gates hold and crack open your story--(and my heart) and then the story becomes loving kindness--the metta. (or something..)

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Susan Kacvinsky's avatar

After a while, everything is about the meta which all boils down to kindness, as you know better than most. In these pieces about Inanna I’m interested in the ways our culture is going through healing the ways an individual does. Only in arcs of hundreds of years. We’re deeply in the shadow now…

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Candace Kronen's avatar

So gripped by your personal story. Also this passage really makes me think of the rituals of social media and other avoidant patterns we fall into to distract ourselves from facing what is hard in life right now: “This gate removes the structures of avoidance: pretty magical thinking, protective ritualized behavior, numbing addictions, cherished-outcome prayer, affirmations, compulsions, and obsessively buoyant thought patterns.”

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Susan Kacvinsky's avatar

Yes. Thank you for reading and commenting. When I undertook my descent, those things didn't exist, so I forgot to include them. But our addictions compound. Our phones were consciously designed to be addictive, with little Pavlovian bells to make us salivate for attention as a substitute for love.

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