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Integrating Ancient Wisdom & Modern Science To Create A Meaningful Life - Jeremy Lent

The Weekend University

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Is There a Mind-Body Organism?

We do have a conceptual consciousness, that Descartes recognized. But in addition to that we also have an animate consciousness which corresponded more with the daoist notion of u-way or purposive action. So from that we can recognize that actually our human challenge is not as to just identify with that one thinking consciousness, but to integrate both of those systems in harmony. And so when we look at this first question, who am I? We can begin to answer that from a different kind of foundation from starting to realize that I am actually a mind-body organism that's capable of integration.

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