I knew genetics wasn’t everything – but how you’re raised isn’t everything either. So what’s inbetween? development. We got pushed out into the world early, our bodies coped, brains developed a little differently than people who go to term, and thanks to plasticity, we manage to cope in the ‘regular world’ sort of ok-ish but not without problems, some significant
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During my religious questing, just prior to ending up in the Orthodox Church for 6 years (after which I went with Osho and then left that), I created an online space to gather MINISTERS of all religions to figure out what they all had in common. I started and ran it from around 1994-6 then passed it on to a Southern Baptist minister and a wiccan priestess from Alaska to run together. I do these things because they need doing – but I try to get out of the obvious leader-role as quickly as possible and pass it on.
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