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Ep. 18 - Plotinus and Neoplatonism

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Importance of Sense of Reality

It's not what makes something real, it's how do we also sense it as real? It's both what structurally, functionally organizes it to be real, two sides of the world view. What is it to understand something? Well, here's a bunch of separate things and when I understand them I find how they're all one,. How they can all be integrated together. That's talking about the object. We treat the object as more real than the shadows because it's more structurally functionally organized. As we try and find the deeper underlying principles that integrate things together, we become more integrated together. And we are realized.

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