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Ep158: Why I Am Not A Buddhist - Dr Evan Thompson

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What a Wonderful Life You Had as a Child

Fascinating, actually, upbringing you had. So perhaps you could begin by initially telling that story? Yes. My father, william orman thompson, and my mother, gale thompson,. they created an institute and an alternative a spiritual a. It was an educational institute and run as a community in the ealy, 19 seventies. B my had been a university professor, and i grew up in this context where there was a kind of constant flow through of religious teachers, philosophers, activists, artists, poets. They were all brought together around the idea that we needed a different kind of learning and knowledge to deal with the cultral crisis that we were facing

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