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“Authentic and convincing experiences of conscious identification with animals, plants, and even inorganic materials and processes make it easy to understand the beliefs of animistic cultures that see the entire universe as being ensouled.” — Stanislav Grof “...such transpersonal experiences dramatically change our understanding of the nature of everyday material reality ... others reveal dimensions of existence that are ordinarily completely hidden to our perception. This ... includes discarnate entities, various deities and demons, mythological realms, suprahuman beings, and the divine creative principle itself.” — Stanislav Grof 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 23
November 14, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 24 “...space, including size, is relative to the perceiver.... At the ultimate tiniest [atomic, subatomic], consciousness might come around ... and present itself as the hugest consciousness, the Cosmos.... So, literally anything can be.” “Ultimately our physics ... is going to demonstrate that essentially there is no such thing as matter. All there is, is mind and motion.” — Armand Labbe The Spectrum of Realities Furthermore, we can see that these realities exist on a continuum with culturally constituted realities on one end and biologically constituted realities on the other, for there are many in-between facts, which would have to be called bioculturally determined facts or bioculturally constituted realities.
November 14, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 23 Chapter 3 Infinite Worlds: The Spectrum of Realities ... Individually, Bioculturally, and Suprahumanly Constituted Realities, and Ultimate Relativity “Authentic and convincing experiences of conscious identification with animals, plants, and even inorganic materials and processes make it easy to understand the beliefs of animistic cultures that see the entire universe as being ensouled.” — Stanislav Grof
November 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 35 At any rate, I contend that our biological “infrastructure,” that is, our bodies and the experiences they make possible — which are species-specific but also common to all humans — results in biocultural, species-specific, and hence transcultural patterns of thought and behavior. Further, these transcultural patterns of thought and behavior create transcultural patterns of social structure, “external culture,” sociocultural behavior, and so on. At this time, in the next chapter, we will look at some of those biocultural realities or “facts.” Keeping in mind the immense relativity of them — that is, they are only relative to our species, for one thing — unveils startling understandings and revelations and opens the door a little more to the paradigm I am unveiling for you in The Secret Life of Stones.
November 12, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Bioculturally Constituted Realities How are bioculturally constituted realities defined? Well, they are cultural facts that exist because of the common biology we as a species share, each and every one of us. These are facts that are relative to the pain and pleasure humans experience and the way and degrees in which we experience them. These are facts relative to the birth and death humans experience and the ways we experience and construe them. These are facts relative to the life cycle and stages of life that are uniquely human and the ways we experience and understand and configure them. Thus, these common biological things and events are facts for the species we call human — they are biologically constituted realities for humans — for they are shared by all humans. Yet they are perceived, construed, interpreted, configured, manifested, acted out, dealt with, responded to, and created around differently by each and every culture, at least slightly differently. These bioculturally constituted realities are cultural constructions built on and around our biological facts (constructions). The constructions, or “facts,” about or related to our common… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 24
November 15, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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With this statement of D’Andrade, I enthusiastically agree also. I believe that there are “intrinsic” (biological) determiners of cultures, which create a basic underlying structure. Indeed, as I was saying above, there are bioculturally constituted realities clustered about those biological “facts” of humans. However, where I feel I take issue with D’Andrade is that I contend that these “intrinsic” determiners are intrinsic to the species, not to the events themselves, as I was delineating above. These brute “facts” are as much biologically relative as items of culture are culturally relative. This is as important to point out as it is important in physics to keep in mind that particles and waves only exist in relation to an observer. In this regard, as Armand Labbe (1991) put it, “Ultimately our physics ... is going to demonstrate that essentially there is no such thing as matter. All there is, is mind and motion.” I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 34
November 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 34 …reality is only culturally determined by any definitional stretch of the term cultural that Sahlins, even from his “total heritage” perspective, could have had in mind. I intend to go further. How so, then, could I claim, at the outset, that I believe both positions can be true? How can reality be so thoroughly “created” — not only culturally but biologically as well — and yet there be universal commonalities on which to base analyses and cross-cultural understanding? Where I disagree with Sahlins and emphatically agree with D’Andrade on the existence of “brute facts” standing outside and separate from cultural constructions is where D’Andrade (1987), in referring to a quote from Sahlins, writes I think I agree if ... [he] ... means that people respond to their interpretations of events, not the raw events themselves. However, if this means that culture can interpret any event any way, and that therefore there is no possibility of establishing universal generalizations, I disagree. I believe that there are strong constraints on how much interpretative latitude can be given to biological and social events. While the letters “D,” “O,” “G,” can be given any interpretation, pain, death , and hunger have such powerful intrinsic negative properties that they can be interpreted as “good” things only with great effort and for short historical periods with many failed converts. 4
November 9, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Ch 3, p. 33

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Well, yes, I believe we do live within culturally created worlds, separate from other people in other culturally created worlds. But I believe we do much more than that. I believe we create it biologically too: I believe that our reality is species-determined prior to that. And while that might sound common-sensical, I contend it is a factor affecting our constructions of reality and determining what we think is real that has been overlooked by all our sciences and by all Western overstandings and for all the time of Western civilization. Yet I profess it has huge significance, affecting the very foundations of human knowledge itself. And the implications of that adjustment to our understandings is what I get into in this book. Relativity: Cultural and Biological Finally, however, what does this say about cultural relativity, of which so much is made in anthropological circles? I agree with Sahlins’s position on the total and symbolic nature of culture and with it the resulting extreme cultural relativism which he asserts. As D’Andrade (1987) put it, Sahlins’s view is extreme enough that it undermines even science’s claim to validity and makes of our science, “mere ethnoscience.” 3 But I do not imply by my agreement that I believe… 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 33
November 6, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 33 atom.... If that can happen, well, if nothing else then, space, including size, is relative to the perceiver.... And this gives further credibility to the idea that, at the ultimate tiniest, consciousness might come around again and present itself as the hugest consciousness, the Cosmos. Yes, truly mind-quaking stuff. So literally anything could be. Biologically Constituted Realities, Conclusion Getting back to culturally constituted realities, so do we then, indeed, create our own reality culturally, of which Marshall Sahlins (1976) writes? Marshall Sahlins is a prominent American anthropologist who stressed the power that culture has to shape the world that people discern and act within and is associated with that total-heritage or Matrix view on reality. Well, yes, I believe we do live within culturally created worlds, separate from other people in other culturally created worlds. But I believe we do much more than that. I believe we create it biologically too: I believe that our reality is species-determined prior to that.
October 28, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Ch 3, p 33

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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 33 atom.... If that can happen, well, if nothing else then, space, including size, is relative to the perceiver.... And this gives further credibility to the idea that, at the ultimate tiniest, consciousness might come around again and present itself as the hugest consciousness, the Cosmos. Yes, truly mind-quaking stuff. So literally anything could be. Biologically Constituted Realities, Conclusion Getting back to culturally constituted realities, so do we then, indeed, create our own reality culturally, of which Marshall Sahlins (1976) writes? Marshall Sahlins is a prominent American anthropologist who stressed the power that culture has to shape the world that people discern and act within and is associated with that total-heritage or Matrix view on reality. Well, yes, I believe we do live within culturally created worlds, separate from other people in other culturally created worlds. But I believe we do much more than that. I believe we create it biologically too: I believe that our reality is species-determined prior to that.
October 28, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Ch 3, p. 32

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Ultimate Reality And then beyond even that we have what we can postulate to be Ultimate Reality, which might not exist, but the term represents whatever reality is or at least comes closest to having realities that are shared — that are “facts,” if you will, that are perceived, shared, “gotten” by ALL individuals — or potentially can be gotten considering the makeup of the species involved — and entities in the Universe. Here is where we start to use the word, God. So on the other end of the spectrum from the subatomic is Ultimate Reality ... and does, then, Ultimate Reality and the subatomic end up joining? How would we know? How could we say it would not? Since space, including size, is conceivably as relative to humans as time is to us, why, even that is possible. It boggles the mind. Also, I should point out that even the subatomic can be further reduced into conscious experiential beings. That might be hard to understand, but keep in mind our most scientific understanding of the Cosmos has it that at the Big Bang, at the creation of the Universe, everything, the entire Universe we see around us, with all its galaxies, was contained within and emanated out from a spot the size of an… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 32
October 27, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 32 So, we have the spectrum of realities and facts: individually constitute realities, culturally constituted realities, bioculturally constituted realities, biologically constituted realities, and near the end of the spectrum, the whatever-constituted realities — let us call them suprahumanly-constituted realities — of “entities” that comprise those species or “members,” in various levels of organizations extending out further than we could possibly see or imagine. The spectrum describes a progression of increasingly valid or “truer” facts and realities. For they are shared with increasingly larger numbers of members who hold them to be true. This spectrum of validity of realities begins with the individually constituted — putting to the side for now that can be further broken down into groups extending into the subatomic — which has the least number of entities holding them to be true, i.e., only one, an individual. And it extends all the way to the suprahumanly constituted realities, which has the largest group of entities, of members sharing those “facts” and “realities” and holding them to be true. Ultimate Reality And then beyond even that we have what we can postulate to be…
October 26, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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On the other end of the spectrum we have biologically constructed realities and whatever it might be called for the larger “cultures” of beingness and perception beyond them. This includes the galaxies, dimensions, star systems, and such, especially and including the things we do not know exist for there is absolutely no way humans can possibly perceive or know of them, even with our technology, even with any possible technology that humans could come up with in any possible human future.... As Grof explains them, While such transpersonal experiences dramatically change our understanding of the nature of everyday material reality, there are others that reveal dimensions of existence that are ordinarily completely hidden to our perception. This category includes discarnate entities, various deities and demons, mythological realms, suprahuman beings, and the divine creative principle itself. 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 31
October 21, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 31 Ultimate Relativity Putting this all together, all realities are relative, all facts can only be understood in context; and those facts and realities can only truly be understood by groups who collectively construct them. So there are an infinite number of beings, an infinite number of species ... consequently an infinite number of worlds. Nope, nothing brute about our facts ... at all!!!!! The continuum we have constructed has on one end the unique individual with mental and experiential constructions that are not shared with anyone else. So these are called individually constructed realities ... related to individual psychology. Yes, yes, I know. Some of you are already breaking down that individual into organs and cells and beginning to see that each of these subgroupings also have their unique constructions — their uniquely held “facts” and realities.” Although I will be toying with ideas of that later, such as, do those realities have an infinite regress into the atomic, and beyond. And, indeed, if time and space are both relative, as they are said to be, does this end of the spectrum, at the infinitesimally small, ever even come fully around again and link up with the realities on the other end, with Ultimate Reality? But that is enough on that end for now.
October 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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For example, it is not that strange to believe that each planet is a form of consciousness ... just ask astrologers ... and that they interact with each other in their own ways. For we see that cells, looking down below us to a microcosm smaller than us, have all the qualities of consciousness — they act, interact, behave, learn, make decisions based on judgments, and so on. So how do we know that planets, galaxies, star systems ... the All That Is Itself ... would not appear to have the same qualities of an individual actor or perceiver if we were above and able to look down on them, just like we do in observing cells and organs? And, in so doing, see what from a higher experiential awareness would be just as much signs of life, consciousness, behavior, intentional interaction, or whatever are the things of perception and beingness at that level that would be similar to the ones we see as indications of life, consciousness, behavior, intentional interactions, and the like at our level ... our admittedly non-ultimate level with its limited and ultimately unknowing perception and experience? As I have said, Grof has reams of evidence that such an amazing possibility is in fact the case. I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 30
October 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 30 On the other hand, regarding the Experience, or Divinity, that physical reality is removed from ... and while this is not crucial to the argument being presented here, but as a look ahead ... I would say that levels of higher awareness (rather, experience), not physical or energetic complexity, create perceptible and/or conceivable levels of complexity of Experience. That is, that integration of greater and greater complexities of subjective Experience equate to greater levels of consciousness, but that levels of complexity of Experience are an inverse to levels of complexity of matter. But again, that is jumping ahead. Yes, we’ll get to that, as well. Still, I would join with deChardin in saying that, for all we know, every integrated whole is possibly some form of perceptor, some form of consciousness which is receiving information — “sensory” and otherwise — and combining and integrating it in their unique way. For example, it is not that strange to believe that each planet is a form of consciousness ... just ask astrologers ... and that they interact with each other in their own ways.
October 16, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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Infinite Worlds Infinite Organizations of Experience Equals Infinite Beings Then there is Teilhard deChardin — someone whom Grof cites as presenting a way of conceptualizing the beings and consciousnesses he has come across in his modalities — who advanced the notion that every integrated whole is in fact a form of beingness and that the degree of consciousness inherent in each is relative to the level of complexity of that integrated whole. For reasons that will become clearer as we proceed, I would say there is indeed reason to assert that levels of complexity relate to levels of awareness. However as for the “higher level” of consciousness being related to the level of complexity — with more complexity being of a higher consciousness than lower complexity — I would say there is evidence indicating the opposite is true. From the perspective of brain-as- reducing-valve, which I will elaborate on shortly, and the viewpoint brought forth in my books, Falls from Grace (2014a) and Experience Is Divinity (2013c), the simplest organizations, the least complex entities, are the highest orders of awareness, in that each reduction into form and the elaboration of that form is one step further removed from the consciousness of stone, the consciousness of space, of the Void ... ultimately, of Divinity. So physical reality with its myriad and ever increasing complexities and organizations of complications are steps in removal from unity with Divinity. 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 29
October 15, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 29 …(the secret life of stones, you see?) and even identify with conscious- nesses on the atomic and subatomic levels ... which is something coming up. Hold on. Putting this rather bluntly, Stanislav Grof concurs, Authentic and convincing experiences of conscious identification with animals, plants, and even inorganic materials and processes make it easy to understand the beliefs of animistic cultures that see the entire universe as being ensouled. From their perspective, not only all the animals, but also the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the sun, the moon and the stars appear to be sentient beings. 1 Infinite Worlds Infinite Organizations of Experience Equals Infinite Beings Then there is Teilhard deChardin — someone whom Grof cites as presenting a way of conceptualizing the beings and consciousnesses he has come across in his modalities — who advanced the notion that every integrated whole is in fact a form of beingness and that the degree of consciousness inherent in each is relative to the level of complexity of that integrated whole. For reasons that will become clearer as we proceed, I would say there is indeed reason to assert that levels of complexity relate to levels of awareness.
October 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Remember, also, that the majority of humans that have ever lived, which includes many living now, think of, nay they even have direct experience of, Nature and its aspects as being living and to constitute a living, perceiving being. And they deem that Nature to be even higher, far higher in fact, in its apprehension and consciousness than us. I want to point out that as odd or fantastical as this sounds, this is exactly the notion coming out of some of the consciousness research of the last fifty years. Stanislav Grof, for one, has found that in his modes of LSD psychotherapy, as well as his non-drug modality, holotropic breathwork, people are able to identify with and experience the consciousnesses not only of other planetmates — that is, other species on Earth — but also are able to merge with and experience the consciousnesses of higher orders of beings: the Earth, individual planets, the galaxy, particular collections of people — such as the women of all time (note here that the entities do not even have to be alive in this time and place for them to be part of a collective consciousness ... the relativity of space and time, remember?); and even collectives of supranormal beings and realities — archetypal consciousness and its reality, for example. And it is possible to experience consciousness of supposedly inanimate, non-living forms… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 28
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 28 ... and here we get into realities we are not capable of knowing exist. You say they are not perceivers, however, so they cannot create their own realities out of their perceptions. Good one, on that. But how do you know that is true? As one example, is there not serious consideration to the idea that the Earth itself is a seeing, feeling, perceiving being? A Gaia? How can you say it is not? Would it not fit into the category of possible beings that we are not capable of seeing with our percepters? Like I said, earthworms might perceive humans as an obstacle or hot and coldness. So might we not be in the same position relative to these greater beings (or at least, different beings)? So that we as humans are perceiving a planet which is in actuality a form of consciousness (an experiential vantage point, a perceiver), but we mistakenly and “brutely” conceive of it as being lifeless ... an Earth that is mere matter and stuff, not conscious or perceiving? Remember, also, that the majority of humans that have ever lived, which includes many living now, think of, nay they even have direct experience of, Nature and its aspects as being living and to constitute a living, perceiving being. And they deem that Nature to be even higher, far higher in fact, in its apprehension and consciousness than us. I want to point out that as odd or fantastical as this sounds, this is exactly the notion coming out of some of the consciousness research…
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There are realities constituted by the fact that the perceiver is from the vegetable kingdom — you might call them vegetablely-constituted realities, or from the animal kingdom, planetmatedy-constituted realities, or by virtue of being mammalian (you’ve got it from here), or out of the fact of belonging to one of the many taxonomies or other biological categories of species, or from the fact that all exist on something that they perceive to be Earth ... and so on. For all I know there are realities that are shared by all “elements” or “members” (whatever they might be) in our solar system, but none other (heliocentrically-constituted realities?), or by “members” (whatever they might be) of our galaxy of the Milky Way, but are not seen at all or are able to be perceived in other galaxies, other dimensions, or other.... 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 27
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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 27 …and ask you, simply, what do we call individuals who we can see are “living in their own world. Yes, you are correct. The term for that is psychotic. No, don’t go. We’re not done yet. Suprahumanly Constituted Realities Okay, then, let us look at the antipode of that end point, newly seen to be individually constituted realities. On the other end of the continuum, the one we were indicating as biologically constituted realities, we can see that it extends beyond where we thought it ended as well. How, you say? Well, as I said, biologically constituted realities are those realities shared by a species, some of which are shared only by that species and some are shared to varying degrees, but not to every other species. Well, the category, species, also, is not absolute. (I see, a couple of you already were thinking this. Good for you!) There are certainly realities that are unique to entire groups of species that have important qualities in common. We see that the categorization of species itself is not absolute. For we can easily draw a line around groups of species and create other entities, which for all we know create their own “constituted” realities.
October 10, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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Culture is collective psychology, in a sense. It is the obverse of Jung’s collective unconscious, for it is what is known in a culture, not unknown or unconscious. It could be said that culture is the collective consciousness, viewed in its widest possible way and including all possible elements of a culture, of a group. Following that? Okay, then, we can see that this end of the continuum, which we were calling culturally constituted realities, really goes further out from its supposed end point to individually constituted realities. These are realities that are unique to an individual and can only be understood within the context of that individual, and when encountered outside of that individual they are likely to be either misunderstood or not seen at all. For those of you following this, we can see that such personal “cultures,” if you will, comprised of individually constructed realities, are different, individual to individual, and that some of those cultural elements are shared widely, while some of those individuals have personal cultures with elements that are so unique and unshared that we have a special term for those individuals. Of course you know this one. For what if I were to put it another way… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 26
October 9, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 26 So who is still with me? Well, if you followed all that, you would see that such groups can be continually broken down ... can be infinitely broken down, you will soon see ... into even smaller subgroups. Neighborhoods can be broken down into separate family cultures, for example. And where from there? Well, we see that, yes, it is true, each and every individual can her- or himself be considered a culture, in that there are understandings, procedures, ways of thinking, and all the rest that are not held in common with anyone else at all but are unique to each individual. That is often referred to as personality, a person’s unique personality, but it goes beyond that to unique facts of each individual that are not even, by other individuals, observable! The difference between individual culture and personality is a matter of emphasis in that individual culture pertains to patterns, realities, facts, and ways of looking at or construing the world primarily from the perspective of the individual, whereas personality usually applies to those things as observed, to the extent they are observed, and referred to by others. Nevertheless, one might say culture, as it pertains to groups and societies, reduced to its foundation, is simply another way of referring to individual psychologies, or personalities, but doing it cumulatively. Culture is collective psychology, in a sense.
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Individually Constituted Realities If not, follow this: Do you see that even the term culture is not a category with clear boundaries and that it might pertain to a huge group of individuals, whereas subgroups of that would constitute separate cultures, each slightly different from the rest, so they are themselves considered cultures. These subgroups are sometimes called subcultures. But even they have subgroups and subcultures within them. For a culture is a particular set of understandings or ways of seeing that is held in common by a group. And every group, in that sense, can be considered a culture for, indeed, that is how we define a group: It is a number of people that share a common understanding or way of seeing things, and that might simply be in its intent. But also it usually includes its goals, procedures, and more: special language, sometimes called jargon; group constructions — physical and organizational ones as well as temporal ones, i.e., events; as well as ways of behavior, manners of speaking, rules of courtesy, and the like. 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 25
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