“If language is a virus from space, even people could be disguised aliens on our planet, because language is inextricably bound to human mental processes, in the forms of our intelligence, to the extent that symbolic language is what makes us different from other living beings.”

Source: Virtual Mercury House. Planetary & Interplanetary Events, p. 48

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