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Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

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The White Man Is Doomed

We have become impotent. We are no longer able to create, that is our real illiteracy. Some reflections on this perfect linearity and the structure of reality,. william blake thought that there even must be sorrow in heaven if there was to be joy. Joy and woe are woven fine a clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pin runs a joy with silken twine. Perfection can constitute a flaw. In traditional chinese houses, the last three tiles are always left off the roof because the saying is even heaven is not perfect. And in oriental rug making, there is something called the imperfect stitch, which is deliberately a lacking.

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