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Mass Brain Damage
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Mass Mind Brain Damage
Not just personal brain damage, not just one individual brain damage.
Brain damage of entire groups, mass mind brain damage. Mass man brain damage.
Reference:
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“The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” - Marshall McLuhan
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"Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century" - Howard Bloom
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George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch California interviews, Campbell was age 82 in 1986
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: This is represented in the mystery religions, where an individual goes through a series of initiations opening him out inside into a deeper and deeper depth of himself, and there comes a moment when he realizes that he is both mortal and immortal, both male and female.
BILL MOYERS: Do you think there was such a place as the Garden of Eden?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Of course not. The Garden of Eden is a metaphor for that innocence that is innocent of time, innocent of opposites, and that is the prime center out of which consciousness then becomes aware of the changes.