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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Paradox of Self Transcendence

The problem we're up against is the paradox of self transcendence Galen uh sprossen you made a very good point about this If if transcendence means something other than what I am then I can't possibly make it Right. It's just it's just growth and but somehow we put the two together with self transcendence Um, and it's it's a paradoxical thing Do that first all makes sense as a paradox? Because I mean I would tend to say it's the source like because the source of what you are isn't you completely But it without it the system can't exist. And so there's this this this call and response, uh mechanism you could say Yeah,

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