Art beyond the sublime | Rupert Sheldrake, Minna Salami, Olivia Fane, Joanna Kavenna
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Transcendent
The transcendent is a being recognizing that those conscious forces, beings experiences greater than our own. It can be terrifying, because it can seem as if our ego or ourself will be annihilated. People have had near death experiences, lasting about two minutes, when they feel themselves going out of their body into another realm of joy and peace bliss. When they've had these experiences, people who've had them, many of them, say is completely changed their life. They now have a much greater sense of meaning. And so i think there's a way in which we're frightened by it as well.
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