Finding Feeling and Purpose

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"The vegetative systems are those body systems that support the living process, that neither require nor greatly benefit from conscious attention. Though this could be considered a gift, our culture has deep distrust for any function not under immediate willful control of the ego. Also, changes take place in the vegetative systems, especially with the parasympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system, over several minutes or even hours, and certainly not instantly For these two reasons our culture at large ignores the vegetative systems, preferring the so called voluntary nervous system to achieve all ends as quickly as possible." by Mike Samsel