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The Myth of Perennialism
Aldous Huxley identified mythic tropes that appear to recur in all cultures. He began a famous book which I believe gave the name to the phrase perennialism. Many of them, his Huxley offers, are about overcome the self. There is something bigger than the self. You're not real. Who are you when you don't have your name? They call it the unborn in Buddhism. Marcus Aurelius says, you are dead, your life is over. Now live the rest of your life properly. Get rid of it. It's waiting to be discovered by us collectively and individually. And what better job could we have than to find it ourselves and help
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