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Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, China on October 5, 1947, to a Chinese mother and American father. Her parents met while her father was working at the American Embassy in Chungking. Her mother was a

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by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947)

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I still recall the deep silence when I contacted my sister and agreed to work with her to construct a link between our family and the stars.

We ascend from imagining to the consciousness of each star we touch, in neither ordinary or non-ordinary reality.

It's a unified field, this darkness we acknowledge, so that consciousness may expand.

Pleiades at dawn signify beginning; multiple, synchronous relations evoke verbal from visual and vice versa.

A symbol gains power from such multiplicity.

Darkness enables us to cross the boundary of space-time to outer space, because the force of existence, what happens, evolution, flows through us as connection.

We accept our experience as an expression of this.

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What German Romantic wrote a poem about a blue flower, the emblem of German Romanticism?

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While "Novalis" (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) wrote of the blue flower in his unfinished novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen , it was Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff who wrote the poem "Die blaue Blume" ("The Blue Flower").

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