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The Consciousness Crisis: Why Our Brains Are on Fire

How trauma, neuroinflammation, and false paradigms reveal a species-wide transition in consciousness

Chelsea M. Thacker · September 22, 2025

I recently saw a post that stopped me in my tracks:

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