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Episode #015 ... A Period of Transition - Plotinus

Philosophize This!

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Your Body Isn't You

There was a new thought pattern growing in popularity, just like all the other ones. People decided that they weren't a body or a mind. Your true self is just a consciousness that controls this body. It's important to note that when all these other greek philosophers were talking about souls, there were no implications, necessarily, of this soul travelling to some spirit realm after you were dead. There are very sporadic instances where they mentioned in after life of some sort but for the vast majority of them, the soul was completely compatible with the physical world.

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