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Ep. 22 - Out of the Trap Pt. 1

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Paradox of the Universe

In the 18th and 19th centuries evolved the idea that the universe doesn't have a heart at all. Freud could talk about the basic energies of the psyche as libido and compare them to the blind forces of brute emotions. Ernst Haeckel and Th Huxley were thinking about the world as the manifestation of energy. Say Orni Berg-Sahn with the idea of the Elam etal what was the nature of this energy which manifested everything? Essentially it was something like electricity. Now electricity it does wonderful things for us but essentially electricity is rather dumb. You switch it on and switch it off. But if just time you see would make things more complicated.

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