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I was the nameless contributor mentioned above. I was indeed inspired to come to this statement through the session. A couple of us were uneasy with the apparent equation of the more primitive frog brain with world culture, though we knew that was not intended. What, indeed, was the connection? The exercises with which all of us felt uneasy were both ways to shake the cognitive brain loose from its shackles ("you can be goofy and not worry about it") and opportunities to come closer to pre-cognitive non-linguistic modes of connection. A text from another culture, even in the normalizing form of a translation, can seem "goofy" or can suggest to us that our neat story-telling conventions are just that, conventions. Get over yourself - that was the important lesson I came away with. And in doing so, you can be more open to the strange.