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Mark Lilla: Yearning for Questions S1 E16

Meditations with Zohar

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The Greatness of a Continuum of Influences

There is a way in which you can think about these experiences as conversion experiences. You know, there are two kinds of those experiences where you change direction. And the one experience is from ignorance or insensitivity to certain questions to a kind of wakefulness to them and a setting off to answer some questions. There's the second one that's of the same sort, but it ends up being a kind of deconversion experience. That's the moment when you end up having grave doubts about the opinions that you've built up in your inquiries and what you've heard and what you're read and teachers you've run into. But just brag bracketing the morality, i think we can certainly say

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