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Religion & Technology Through A Symbolic Lens W/ Jonathan Pageau #384

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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The Best Way to Understand Symbolism Is Through Myths

The best way to understand symbolism is that it's something like a contraction of reality. The word symbol itself means, you know, two things thrown together. All the symbols that attract our attention are because they seem to contract a lot of information and our experience into very simple forms. And that's why they end up being in some ways a shorthand of reality.

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