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Jiang proposes that human beings are composed of two selves: a material body produced through evolution and a consciousness produced through interaction with the universe.
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Jiang proposes that human beings are composed of two selves: a material body produced through evolution and a consciousness produced through interaction with the universe.
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Human beings have both a material body and a soul that connects them to the spiritual or divine.
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Self-denial practices such as fasting or exposure to cold can collapse the body so consciousness shifts into the spiritual.
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Death is not the end but a release because the body and this world are a prison.
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A person's body can become a vessel or portal for Jesus to inhabit if the person welcomes Jesus through love, generosity, forgiveness, and other spiritual practices.
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Bodies and pain exist because the universe is constructed to promote imagination; to vibrate more means to imagine more.
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The bishop’s speech is interpreted as conventional religious salvation: leave the foul body and live in a heavenly mansion.
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Jiang argues cancer can be interpreted as loss of faith: the body falls apart when someone stops believing in themselves, life purpose, and relevance in the world.
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"Or theory of mind. This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us..."
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"Okay? Two selves. There is the body, and the body comes materially. Right? Okay? We know that. We know that through evolution. But then..."
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"...human. There is, of course, the material aspect. You have a body, but you also have a soul, okay? You also have a soul..."
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"...out naked in the cold. Okay? But when you collapse your body and you're approaching death, your consciousness shifts into the spiritual. Okay? So..."
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"...you bring him back? And the answer is by making your body a vessel for Jesus to return in. Okay? Your body can become..."
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"...open your heart to Jesus. But you have to construct your body, your mind, your consciousness in a way that allows for Jesus to..."
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"...is, why do we feel pain? And why do we have bodies? And the reason why is that the universe is constructed in a..."
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"I met the bishop on the road and much said that he was a high religious authority."
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"Those breasts are flat and fallen now. Those veins must soon be dry. Live in a heavenly mansion not in some foul stye."
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"Okay. So you're fallen, right? So you've seen a lot in life. You've lived a terrible life. But don't worry. God is forgiving. If..."
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"...Cancer is a splitting of cells, right? So why is your body literally falling apart? It's because you've stopped believing in it. You've stopped..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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