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Scott Barry Kaufman || Transcend

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

The Power of Transcendence

The seamlessness between you and the world I think is a very powerful image. And maybe in fact it answers the question, which is the word transcend or transcendence kind of begs a question about what is it that we are transcending? Do you have a simple answer to that? Is it a thing that we're transcending or is it more vague than that? Well, one could at the most simplistic level say you're transcending the ego. But for purposes of our conversation, one could define the ego as all those aspects of our self that are the defensive aspects of ourself. It's our defense mechanisms.

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