The House on Valencia Street16 Huhti 2021

6. It's alive, I think? Descartes

On this episode, we explore amongst ghosts, murder and the like, what is sentience, and being alive? Descartes thought quite a bit on this, as did Christina of Sweden. I share my perspective as a torture and rape survivor, what sentience can mean when healing. An illustration from the movie Brazil, offers focus. Also, Buddhism can offer a calm space within, that might just keep you safe, in one form. Our minds can be the abode, with practice.

*Correction: Descartes referred to a *pencil* in the glass of water, in the Discourse on the Method, rather than a utensil.
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This is the House on Valencia Street. This is a place where ghosts and psychics, with PTSD, exist. Share time with me, while I walk back to haunted rooms and space being claimed from long ago. Language is explicit, content warning of topic: ghosts, psychic ability, rape, incest, foster care, murder, emancipation, BDSM, kink, therapy, Buddhism, addiction and recovery, codependency, domestic violence, absurd humor, happy cackle laughs, with a few pauses between. Mature audiences are appropriate. This is a claimed space where rape survivors talk about their experience, any way they want.

Picture inset: This is me, so many years ago, standing in front of my mother's Impala, and the House on Valencia Street.

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