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Originally Posted by ziplock

I do not really believe in the trigger mechanism. I think it's a gradual process like the rest of life and has only been misunderstood as this sudden thing. Tons of groundwork has to be laid.

Tons of groundwork must indeed be laid, but what about when that groundwork is finished -- or nearly finished? For example, consider your fetal development. Your steps toward maturity from fertilized cell to infant were myriad and gradual, yet at the end of that gradual journey was a sudden, dare I say, trigger mechanism which catapulted you from the only world you had ever known into a wholly new one: removing you from your former closed system and placing you squarely within an experiential grid whose mystery is matched only by its vastness.

Before that point, a long line -- descending deep into the ages, it might seem -- of ancestor cells had previously made up your body. The work your cellular forbears wrought was ancient and gradual, slowly laying the foundation for the next generation's work. When it was finished, your cells would hardly have known -- and neither could they hardly have imagined -- the fantastic ride upon which they were poised to embark.