By Frederick Turner — 2003
Ralph Waldo Emerson had some strange ideas about the natural world. Recent research suggests they might even be true.
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CLEAR ALL
It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.
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In the past, I had mostly stayed away from tarot cards for fear of what they might reveal — that something terrible was waiting for me, that my true love was going to leave me, that I was going to be broke for the rest of my life.