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A Brief History of Want: Longing and Its Place in Cosmos and Consciousness

The Emerald

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The Importance of Reconstructionist Thinking

Netti: If I were to say there were an eternal soul, I'd be siding with the Brahman. But where does it leave nature spirits that people may need to interact with deeply and substantively for their very survival? Netti: Spend too much time deconstructing the essential nature of the waterhole and miss out on the life-giving water. The path of mental negation ultimately leads to avoid essence that is conceptual rather than actually reflective of how things are in nature.

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