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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...truction of the entire continent of America was set off by the first European colony establishing a foothold on an island 3 miles off the coast of t... ...ansom, despite relying on these "savages" for food and supplies. The Roanoke colony disappeared leaving no explanation except the cryptic qwords: ‘... ... A negative attempt. The ‘and’ is left unfinished… and what happened to the colony? The lost colony of Roanoke remains an unsolved mystery to thi... ...sic symptoms of subconscious regression… all the way back to infancy and pre-natal-trauma. That is… as much as they possibly can; given their circ... ...ossible… but how, and in what way…? They all try to regress back to the pre-natal safety of the womb. That is why all humans see life as being ha... ... as individuals. Greek culture was more open, more infantile, rather than pre-natal in nature. They preferred light, open tunics… but they too suc...

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...oon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again ? there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don?t mean at sermon- time in warm weather (when the thing has...

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