Top Highlights

• In keeping with our theory, it is more likely that opium and its derivatives return us to the “safe space” on the biosurvival circuit, the warm, snug place of bio-security; opiates may trigger neuro-transmitters* characteristic of breast-feeding.
• All experience is a muddle, until we make a model to explain it. The model can clarify the muddles, but the model is never the muddle itself. “The map is not the territory”; the menu does not taste like the meal.
• Any mammal hooks the bio-survival circuit to the first imprinted bio-survival object: the teat.
• This is why, despite the Cancer Terror, an estimated 30,000,000 Americans still smoke cigarettes . . . Others chew gum (spearmint, juicy fruit, even sugar-free: something for every taste), bite their fingernails, gnaw their knuckles, scrunch pencil stubs, eat more than they need (Potato chips, anyone? a Mars bar maybe?
• As for music — where did we first hear it, who sang or hummed to us, and against what part of her body were we held?