Below are two example stories from Borderland for discussion, what do you think about them? Feel free to share thoughts about what this brings and also feel free to get creative with the data. We will share more stories as they get transcribed.
Example recording 1
Length of recording: 5 minutes
Transcription notes
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S: I have felt that – a burn, this – some kind of a portal that opens collectively within people and within the group. And that it allows – I’m sharing something. Yeah. All (families) [00:49] came by, I feel like this is pretty vulnerable to share somehow. But like that I can really see how people hear, and also recognise it in myself that we are opening up and exploring aspects of ourselves that have been suppressed deep in our shadows, like me for example, I’m – this year and also last year, I’m tuning into a part of myself which is really, really dominant and initiating and manipulating the atmosphere and people’s emotions, I feel like I have magic powers here that makes me be able to control reality. Like I feel and observe how I touch people and influence people, like if I throw out some kind of impulse I see how it moves to another person and how that creates another impulse. And this is pretty – it can be really constructive, but it can also be very destructive, you know. And yeah – this portal that we are opening can also make us pretty mad and chaotic and shaky, and I feel that sometimes also – like yesterday night I was walking around, I (-) [03:11] all the intense meetings, and it felt like I needed to be a dictator. But I also – (-) the people I was around, if I could control them and – I had a consent for that, so I did. And I asked them if they could give me pleasure, and it became a beautiful, sweet little orgy kind of thing, and then I gave everyone ketamine. I don’t really know if this is making sense at all. I think Borderland is like – yeah, it’s really like a gate for transformation, and I’ve transformed in many ways here. Okay, I hope this was relevant for someone. If it wasn’t, it was pretty meditative for me.
Example recording 2
Length of recording: 1 minute
Transcription notes
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S: So there’s one thing that happened to me that I was eating like a yoghurt and that was, I ate all and then it was finished and so I put the spoon with which I was eating the yoghurt in the yoghurt bag and because the spoon was (looking) out of the yoghurt it fell to the side and like the thing crashed and it was on the ground and then I picked it up and the spoon was still too heavy so it fell again and at this point I was like kind of disappointed in the universe like, why would they even create such a thing, I don’t understand it, that’s the story, what does life even mean.
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