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Toward A New Story, Vol. 2: WHO ARE YOU? W/ Marc Gafni #391

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

CHAPTER

The Myth of Separation

The notion that I'm a discrete separate self is actually an absurdity. Nothing exists independently of everything. If I, you know, clap you on the shoulder, it's your fucking shoulder. And that's true even for the body, which is separate. So we just need to recognize that that emergence of separate self is a great and wondrous accomplishment. But when you reify it, right, when you apotheize it, then it becomes in some sense, idolatrous or distorted.

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