Ep. 10 – Veil of Thoughts: Money, Relationships & Desire
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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The History of Marriage and the Experience of Falling in Love
When we go back to the origins of western civilization, in the hebrew and christian traditions, we find the idea of marriage and the experience of falling in love are really rather separate things. In those earlier times, in agrarian cultures, nobody ever chose their marriage partner. And it therefore has nothing strictly to do with a virgin,. although a woman who chooses her own husband might conceivably be a virgin. By and large, a marriage was an alliance of families, and it was contracted not for the purpose of raising children, yes, but also to create a social unit smaller than a village.
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