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#181 - The Illusory Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Power of Mindfulness

The world you see with your open eyes is the same place where you're thinking and feeling exactly I mean you can actually see that at least visually you can see that in just superimposing a visual image onto the physical world you're looking at right so yes you know people can do that with a greater or lesser degree of vividness but something happens there if you're staring at your table and you imagine a very small horse and carriage on it. It's no different than when I say you know imagine an elephant on itright? So we just know as a matter of yeah the underlying neurology this is this is all happening in the same place and think they dovetail perfectly really.

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