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#181 — The Illusory Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Having No Head - The Illusion of Selflessness

i want to give you one more look at the kinds of things i'm talking about almost rely in the waking up ap. To do that, i want to introduce you to richard lang who was a long time student of douglas hardin. Douglas was an architect by training, and then devised his own very creative way of talking about the nature of awareness. He really stepped out of every traditional way of teaching and came up with his own metaphors and procedures. The core of his teaching surrounds this experience of what he called having no head, and wrote a book by that title, on having no head. Many people get it, who i'm convinced, would not get it by being given

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