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290 - John Vervaeke - How to See the End of the World

The Symbolic World

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The Origin, the Past and the Future

I don't think we can do it reinvent. In some ways our origin is given to us. It comes down from heaven, that sounds like a weird thing to say. But we're given an origin. There are moments that people participate in origin moments, but you can't make that up. You kind of, it just things just happen to be in the right place at the right time with the right people. And then it's almost as you're doing it, you realize that now there's an origin of something happening. So because of that, I tend to go back to this trope of promised land and exile as a structure to understand the bigger meaning crisis. That there seems to

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