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[Extended] Ariel Burger with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What's the Relationship Between One and the Many?

Many mystics are dealing with the fundamental question of, what's the relationship between one god and the multiplicity of things. Why is there difference if everything is part of one god? And that's really kind of the driving question for many mystical texts. Different traditions and schools of thought have developed different bridges between one, the one and the many. Many of them have to do with light, which you were just talking about. According to the mystics, it has to do with which, which vibration is being expressed. Every every step along that descent from oneness to multiplicity has a different color and frent tone, a different note. These are metaphors to try to get at why

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