A born connection to meaning, purpose, human connection, and the sacred that modern society can make people forget.
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Divine connection
A born connection to meaning, purpose, human connection, and the sacred that modern society can make people forget.
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Jiang claims poets are really prophets because they have a divine connection to the universe.
Jiang attributes the modern surge in depression, eating disorders, suicidal tendencies, and anxiety partly to lost divine connection intensified by phones, social media, and internet-mediated childhood.
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"...Okay? And how they're able to work is they have a divine connection to the universe. Okay? What we call... Okay? So, there are..."
"Yeah. Good question. Okay. Yeah. So, first of all, we're all connected to the divine, but we just choose to forget we're connected to..."
"...the answer is that when you're born, you have an other connection with the divine. Okay? So, and as you lose this connection, you..."
"Yeah. So, it's like, for example, a lot of people develop cognitive disabilities after a lot of, like you said, being put into schools,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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