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Figure 22. Geschrei, by Edvard Munch. Collection, Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamlinger,
Munch-Museet.

experience, I learned to meditate my way through a great deal of the
pain, or at least catch myself when I was resisting. In opening myself
to the experience itself, as a witness of my own experience, the pain
passed through me energetically, in waves of energy, expanding and
contracting. It was the contracting and congealing that brought the

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