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Episode 52: Oxford Psychedelics Society

Rupert Spira Podcast

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The God That Hitler Followed Was Not a God, It Was the Ego

The God that Hitler followed was not a God, it was the ego. All his thoughts and feelings were in service of the separate self. Can you conceptualize his behaviour as caused by let's say a demon or the devil because we use religious language to you too? Yes, that would be a way of personifying ignorance and attributing ignorance to an entity called the devil which created evil in Hitler. I think that is dangerous because you then set, you basically have two gods then. You have God in the devil. can you not have multiple or many manifestations of the same God?

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