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Fire in the Sky

The same instincts that once helped small bands survive can still bind us together, and still turn against us. We remain creatures of fear, pattern, tribe, and story. First came wonder. Then fear. Then story. Then belief. And belief, for a very long time, helped keep people alive.
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Fire in the Sky
Composite astronomical image of a violent galactic event, included here as a visual analogy for the kind of overwhelming sky phenomena that may have shaped early human myth and symbolic memory.

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Matt Stone

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