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Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

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The Relationship Between One and Many

In the cabala a, a great corpus of jewish mystical literature, the structure of human faculties takes the form of a tree. Humanity's task is to integrate them, both laterally and vertically. I want to reflect on an symmetry at the heart of coincidentio positorum which i have mentioned a lot in this talk. Both opposites are simultaneously present and need to be so just as east and west are simultaneously present on the campus. So what is divided is to be united - if you go far enough in one direction, you reach not only more of what you desired, but its opposite too. This involves sycronic returns that follows from any cyclical process. It

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