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Jiang says souls are essentially morphic fields, which is why one person's act of looking can trigger another's response at a soul level.
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Jiang treats art-viewing as a kind of meditation or mystical connection, extending the previous aura discussion into an explicitly contemplative practice.
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Jiang treats the participant's ecstatic online encounter as evidence that connection and community can generate a happiness experience intense enough to feel soul-level.
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Jiang defines poetry as a medium that connects lovers, displays love, and brings other people into that love rather than keeping it private.
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He defines love as connection to others and measures moral direction by whether one's actions expand or diminish other people's capacity to love.
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Jiang says the deeper criterion is not fixed language or fixed formulas but a living connection to the divine.
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He says the Monad is always available, and people connect to it by listening to the heart rather than refusing that inner orientation.
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Jiang's counterclaim is that humans are first and foremost religious animals with a fundamental need to understand why they are here and to connect with other people.
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"...staring at friends our friends are turned around because there's a connection at the soul level okay and that's why the reaction is so..."
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"So this is before pictures or cell phones or anything like this, so you're capturing a moment of time, and there's like a duality..."
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"...right? A meditation that creates a sort of mystical experience, mystical connection. Does that make sense, guys? Right?"
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"Remember. Like. Back. Then. I. Met. This. Girl. Online. And. I. Just. I. Just. And. I. Feel. Like. Like. My. Soul. Ecstasy. And. My...."
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"I. Understand. Thank. You. Okay. This. Is. A. Connection. Right. Connection. Right. Also. Community. All. Right. Yes. Thank. You. Anyone. Else. Yes."
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"Right. So. Poetry. Is. The. Highest. Expression. Of. Your. Love. For. Someone. But. Why. Is. That. The. Case. Yes. To. Connect. To. Unify. With...."
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"...key variable is love. And what is love? Love is your connection to others, right? So are you making others more capable of love..."
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"...It works. Okay. Faith can be changed. What matters is your connection to the divine. Does that make sense, guys? All right. So again,..."
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"...to your heart, then you can easily connect to the Monad. Connection to the Monad is the greatest happiness in the world. So moments..."
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"...at the Cathars, they were doing extreme morality to maintain the connection. We talked last time about your own connection. And you say, no,..."
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"And that's what we believe today. Right? You're in school because you want to get good grades so you can go get into a..."
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"We are first and foremost a religious animal. We have the fundamental need to understand why we are here. We have a fundamental need..."
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