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Why life-threatening illness can create profound states of presence

During my cancer treatment I found this incredible presence and clarity but now that I am healthy again I cannot access that quality of attention and everything feels shallow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Proximity to death often strips away the mental noise that normally fragments attention, revealing capacities for presence that feel inaccessible in ordinary life.

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