{"id":566,"date":"2019-06-11T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/2019\/06\/11\/the-reptilian-and-the-infinite\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T17:26:29","slug":"the-reptilian-and-the-infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaporacle.com\/cards\/the-reptilian-and-the-infinite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reptilian and the Infinite"},"content":{"rendered":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our desires, addictions, obsessions and various neurotic sufferings are predicated on our enslavement to linear time. Against the backdrop of the dread ticking of the clock we anxiously seek to enforce our will on the Tao. But against the backdrop of the infinite and eternal, the phantoms we pursue appear quite differently. 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