There's a spiritual teacher, Adi Ashanti, that we've had on the show a few times. And he has a saying that I mentioned to Michael Pollan in our conversation, which is he describes the ego simply as that's all it is. It is just a contraction. So there may be a conceptual self and there may be an experiential self that are linked. But that contraction is where all the trouble starts.

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