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Seth Gillihan || Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

How Do We Know We Don't Have It Backwards?

How do we know that the deeper self isn't primarily aggressive, sexual or unthinking? I think it depends on what our, our prior beliefs are. Sam Harris had this meditation where he said your consciousness is not in your head. Your head is in consciousness. And so when I came to believe that was true, then, and I came to see the conscious, consciousness being manifested in each of us as something that we, we carry to, at least so to speak, as our spirit. Then for me, everything else is kind of built around that.

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