You know that sensation when you come out of a body of water – bath, pool, ocean – of the water not wanting you to leave and actively pulling you back? I suspect that's our first memory: leaving the womb. In Taiji our sense of home – the long lost home – is that undistracted feeling of warm fluid connectivity and continuity that we had in utero, rather than any autochthonic sense of place.
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