15 Observation, 16 Existence, 17 Volcano, 18 Disaster, 19
Consciousness, 20 Collective,
21 Migration
Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Fifteen, Observation
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 15, Observation
Chapters
01 The
Paintings
02 The
Music
03 The
Memory of Stars
04
Mutation
05 The New
Gene
06
Collective Consciousness
07 Synergy
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter One: The Paintings
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Pt. 15,
Ch. 01
People painted, projected images of the future cave walls; and stones,
the past also, things no one living had seen.
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter Two: The Music
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Pt. 15, Ch. 02
Drums, rhythm; pushed the stories of each tribe, each
family deep into the memory of its members changing their DNA.
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter Three: The Memory of Stars
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Pt. 15, Ch. 03
Their culture had devolved; from star to cave, yet it retained a
memory of its ancestry; knowledge encoded in cells.
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter Four: Mutation
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Pt. 15, Ch. 04
On their sojourn to Earth humans had mutated their DNA, allowing them
to inhabit, and thrive on the wet, blue world.
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter Five: The New Gene
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Pt. 15, Ch. 05
Changes beget changes. The Ancients became humanity, their genes
converged with native life. They became new people.
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter Six: Collective Consciousness
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Pt. 15, Pt. 06
Receptors emerged in the human brain; linking it to the Earth’s
magnetic fields. In this, humanity became connected.
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Observation; Part Fifteen,
Chapter Seven: Synergy
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Pt. 15,
Ch. 07
Few humans were aware of the collective consciousness. Everyone was
entangled in it, and it made many of them crazy.
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Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Sixteen, Existence
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 16, Existence
Chapters
01 Flesh
02 Bi
Pedal
03 Stereo
Hearing
04
Binocular Vision
05
Hemispheric Brain
06 Thirst
07 Duality
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter One: Flesh
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Pt. 16,
Ch. 01
The flesh remembers. Bodies change with every new experience; each new
thread, woven proteins in the fabric of life.
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter Two: Bi Pedal
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Pt. 16, Ch. 02
Stand against the pull of gravity; under the weight of
atmosphere. Pivot on a central axis; dance on two feet, walk.
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter Three: Stereo Hearing
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Pt. 16, Ch. 03
Communicating in sound is slow; luxuriant compared to light. Waves
crashing through the body, adding depth to sight.
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter Four: Binocular Vision
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Pt. 16, Ch. 04
A band of light pierces organic lenses, from corner to corner 180
degrees; color and depth fill the field of vision.
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter Five: Hemispheric
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Pt. 16, Ch. 05
A cognitive override; flooding the organ with fear, or desire; then,
split down the middle; left for right, duality.
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter Six: Thirst
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Pt. 16, Pt. 06
A body needs water, oxygen in the lungs; to thirst is to know that the
end is near; the end of the body’s suffering.
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Existence; Part Sixteen,
Chapter Seven: Duality
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Pt. 16,
Ch. 07
The body is a cognitive organ, with a chemical drive fed into the
quantum field; a neural net rooted in the organic.
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Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Seventeen, Volcano
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 17, Volcano
Chapters
01 The
Last Event
02 74,000
Years Ago
03 The
Discovery
04 The
Warnings
05
Impending Doom
06
Preparations
07 Fate
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter One: The Last Event
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Pt. 17,
Ch. 01
It came without warning, shaking the world, throwing it off its axis.
Ash covered the world, hiding it from the sun.
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter Two: 74,000 Years Ago
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Pt. 17, Ch. 02
The human family was small; a few million spread out,
starving. Jim starved with them in the famine after the blast.
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter Three: The Discovery
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Pt. 17, Ch. 03
Jim had known about it for millennia. Humans found it fifty years ago.
A super-volcano pushing mountains to the sky.
#Emergence
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter Four: The Warnings
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Pt. 17, Ch. 04
A deformation of the dome, earthquakes, boiling water in lakes and
streams; something big growing below the surface.
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter Five: Impending Doom
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Pt. 17, Ch. 05
There were documentaries but few people were aware of the danger.
Misinformation was leaked as the explosion neared.
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter Six: Preparations
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Pt. 17, Pt. 06
Timing is everything. The volcano would catalyze the preservation of
humanity; a few would live. All would be saved.
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Volcano; Part Seventeen,
Chapter Seven: Fate
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Pt. 17,
Ch. 07
There is no fate but there are certainties. The eruption of volcanoes
is among them. The end of humanity hung there.
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Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Eighteen, Disaster
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 18, Disaster
Chapters
01
Yellowstone
02 Lift
03
Rumbling
04 The
Blast
05 The
Axis
06 The
Cloud
07 The
Other Side
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter One: Yellowstone
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Pt. 18,
Ch. 01
The awesome-beauty of a landscape carved from living rock; the
cauldron’s bubbling water gave the tell, catastrophe.
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter Two: Lift
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Pt. 18, Ch. 02
Humans noticed the volcano when the surrounding
mountains began to lift. They did not know how vast the problem was.
#Emergence
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter Three: Rumbling
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Pt. 18, Ch. 03
Animals sensed it first, and fled in droves, while the seismographs
rattled, but doubts had crept into the analysis.
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter Four: The Blast
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Pt. 18, Ch. 04
Every living thing heard the explosion. Chaos followed quick upon the
sound wave, with prayers rising up to meet it.
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter Five: The Axis
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Pt. 18, Ch. 05
For hundreds of thousands of years; pressure grew. When the
Yellowstone Cauldera blew the Earth shifted on its axis.
#Emergence
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter Six: The Cloud
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Pt. 18, Pt. 06
Ash buried North America. Fine particles, and light blocking gas rose
high in the atmosphere, and covered the world.
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Disaster; Part Eighteen,
Chapter Seven: The Other Side
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Pt. 18, Ch.
07
The eruption was a crucible. Half of the world perished within days,
and most of the rest in the year that followed.
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Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Nineteen, Consciousness
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 19, Consciousness
Chapters
01 Self
02 Other
03 Mother
04 Father
05
Siblings
06 Family
07 Other
Self
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter One: Self
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Pt. 19,
Ch. 01
A birth is a coalescence of matter organizing into form; supporting a
consciousness, emerging independent and alone.
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter Two: Other
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Pt. 19, Ch. 02
The animal brain; its glands pumping chemicals into a
liquid consciousness; fearful, regarding all others as threat.
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter Three: Mother
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Pt. 19, Ch. 03
There is a time for every mammal, in the warmth, and dark of the womb,
when they are truly one with another; mother.
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter Four: Father
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Pt. 19, Ch. 04
Stranger, protector, arbiter; a father is the first person the child
seeks to bond with, to contend with, to please.
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter Five: Siblings
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Pt. 19, Ch. 05
The first with whom you share a common bond, and to compete; you
identify with them, learn betrayal, and to forgive.
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter Six: Family
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Pt. 19, Pt. 06
We protect those closest to us with ferocity equal to our own drive
for self protection; blood, family, it binds us.
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Consciousness; Part Nineteen,
Chapter Seven: Other Self
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Pt. 19,
Ch. 07
We become self-aware fearing any; accept kin, who shared our
interests, learning to see strangers as other selves.
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Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Twenty, Collective
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 20, Collective
Chapters
01 Family
02 Kin
03 Village
04 Tribe
05 City
06 State
07 Nation
#Emergence
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#365SciFi
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter One: Family
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Pt. 20,
Ch. 01
The care of a loving family is like the wet, clinging mesh of a
spiderweb. Familial obligations are invisible bonds.
#Emergence
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter Two: Kin
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Pt. 20, Ch. 02
Family becomes a clan. Loyalties are set in the body,
by chemicals, enzymes, and proteins; bonds we do not question.
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter Three: Village
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Pt. 20, Ch. 03
Hierarchies emerge in village life; at the well, the markets, places
of worship, judgment. The center is everything.
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter Four: Tribe
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Pt. 20, Ch. 04
There was safety and competition, there were shared customs, stories,
and rituals in the tribe. There was otherness.
#Emergence
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter Five: City
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Pt. 20, Ch. 05
People flowed into the urban centers to trade, and work. Families
dispersed, becoming less important than neighbors.
#Emergence
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter Six: State
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Pt. 20, Pt. 06
Cities gathered villages to themselves, as families did kin, in
ancient bonds of vassalage; bond of the imagination.
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Collective; Part Twenty,
Chapter Seven: Nation
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Pt. 20,
Ch. 07
Common language, and custom; bound States into Nations; for security,
for prosperity, and allegiances shift outward.
#Emergence
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Emergence:
Section Three, Earth
Part Twenty-one, Migration
Collected Chapters
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Section 03, Earth
Part 21, Migration
Chapters
01 Forest
02 Plains
03 Hills
04
Mountains
05 Rivers
06 Coast
07 Ocean
#Emergence
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter One: Forest
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Pt. 21,
Ch. 01
A clearing in the trees, close to a clear stream, the fire burning;
smoking fish, bird, rabbit. The primordial life.
#Emergence
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter Two: Plains
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Pt. 21, Ch. 02
Look across the plain; over the tall grasses, the open
sky, deep-blue, and oppressing. Dangers lurking in the field.
#Emergence
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter Three: Hills
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Pt. 21, Ch. 03
From caves in the forest by clear springs, across the open plain; we
built homes on hills, drawn close to the stars.
#Emergence
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter Four: Mountains
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Pt. 21, Ch. 04
We led the herd to the mountain, and up the lofty peak; looking for
passes, we found ourselves, we found the sacred.
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter Five: Rivers
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Pt. 21, Ch. 05
We followed the rivers to the source; the clear springs from which the
water flowed, and founded our villages there.
#Emergence
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter Six: Coast
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Pt. 21, Pt. 06
The first roads were shorelines. We roamed the inland lakes, and seas;
those flat coastal plains, trekking our path.
#Emergence
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Migration; Part Twenty-one,
Chapter Seven: Ocean
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Pt. 21,
Ch. 07
On thin strips of wood, canoes; we hurled ourselves into the waves,
like the ancients did as they crossed the stars.
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