Parallax Academy#1: Alexander Bard and Layman Pascal - Everything is Religion
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The Origin of Meditation in the 20th Century
Lao Tzu thought these were ancient sages. He says they were like people crossing a frozen river who didn't know how thick the ice was. That was their meditation. It's not an inner experience because you take a drug, right? So I think we can start at the 20th century carefully now looking back over the last 80 years and then say, how the hell did Kirk Bane and Jimmy Hendrix become such iconic figures while because they're shamanic? that also means the chief changed and the priest were gone. There were nothing with shamans for a period of eight years. We do not have massive ecstatic experiences among our modern-day heroes. You do not want to
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