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130. Charles Foster | Inhabit the World

Language of God

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Is There Something You Learned From the Tree?

Empathy is like everything else. You get better at it than how do you work at it? So if you try something really hard like trying to feel what it's like to be a non-human animal, it causes your empathy muscles to hypertrophy just like going to the gym. Another thing is that how do you look at almost everything else in the world? I think the more conscious you are of consciousness which seems to be fairly ubiquitous in the cosmos. The better we get at looking at consciousness the more we find it. Love is one of the basic substrates of the universe and therefore the creator of the universe is probably to be characterized by the label love.

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