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The Importance of Spiritual Practices in Overcoming Existential Anxiety

Delilah: One of the main ways that anxiety is expressed is through your fear of death this trembling little self which on some subconscious level you know is an illusion. To die before you die in a spiritual context to eradicate that false sense of self through spiritual practices sometimes through large notions of psychedelics momentarily is to release that trembling sense of a self and therefore the fear of death dissipates with it. Delilah: It just no longer makes any sense to be scared of death because the self that I was scared that was going to die I've seen through that illusion and it's not even there so that might be taken it quite a bit further than Delilah himself wanted to take

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