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Jules Evans: More evolved than you (and other spiritual pathologies)

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The Rise and Fall of the Evolutionary Spiritual Movement

There's a tendency to spiritual malthusianism, which is that you should let the less fit or the less evolved die off so that the new can emerge. Fourth is a tendency tospiritual eugenics, the idea that maybe nature needs a system of existence in this world. And then finally, I talk about a tendency to kind of medical spiritual, liberal utopianism. So about how figures like Alexis Corel, Aldous Huxley, Gerald Hurd, Abraham Maslow often put forward rather utopian visions of a new type of society.

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