The tree works by awakening sensory memory of the body, especially smell, while denying actual consumption.
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Smell
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Smell is presented as a primary control mechanism that can activate a particular identity and emotion in the pharaoh during decision-making.
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"But once we shed our bodies, then our souls only desire the divine light. Okay? Doesn't make sense. The problem with gluttony is the..."
"...use to activate the different identities. But the main mechanism is smell. Okay? Smell. And"
"what this means is that while all this is happening, there are different scents for different identities. Okay? So, for example, with Ra, it..."
"...been left to fester. And that's why it, that's why it smells. Okay."
"...tree calling into them and saying, you know, like, you can smell me, you can desire me, but you must resist me. Does that..."
"...speaks. English too well to just be a high school teacher. Smells like an operative that literally he literally sounds like every educated Chinese..."
"...i supported donald trump but i just don't want that filthy smell on me again um not that i really care voting is stupid..."
"...but I there's certain things that don't kind of pass the smell test for me"
"...If the whole body were pairing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranging the member of the body,..."
"...your senses. There's the visual, okay? There's a sound, there's a smell, there's a touch. And gathering swallows twitter in the sky. Okay? That's..."
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