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mediation

is going beyond the jabbering of your mind where body, breath, and mind do not come in the way of the deeper aspects of one's consciousness.

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

is part of all human practices in society; that is, no practices ever reach us without having already gone through a process of signification.

The implication of such a recognition, already registered in works like Mythologies and The Fashion System, is that all human practices in society are mediated, that is they are always already contained within systems of signification. Narrative fiction, in other words, never reaches us without having already gone through a process of signification. p.60

is understood as that which passes through a process or system of transformation (systems of signification) in its representation.

The meaning of all narratives is mediated, understanding mediation here in its technical sense: that which passes through a process or system of transformation in its representation. p.60

mediation, n.All

mediation