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269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates

The Symbolic World

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The Absolute Is Not Enlightenment but It's a Necessary Thing and It Has to Be Done

spiritual bypassing as a psychological category which it is that's what people are trying to do right. I think there is something pretentious of it that we can somehow be free from the world you know like in our embodiment and then we don't have moral and epistemic responsibilities, he says. John: "Any notion of enlightenment that does not have something to tell me about how to deal with the perennial problems and cultivate wisdom"

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