Student shorthand, accepted by Jiang, for the continuum linking positive spiritual agency to its degraded forms.
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ego / free will / imagination spectrum
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"...to me because um you're you're saying that uh it's a spectrum like ego free will imagination is a spectrum yes and it goes..."
"...those would get you in this fictional hell. But there's a spectrum. And so the closer you get to bravery on either end of..."
"choice i'm saying that there's a spectrum of there's a there's a spectrum of things here and i don't know at which point is..."
"...huge debate as to the nature of Jesus, okay? So the spectrum was that Jesus was a man, and then there was those who..."
"...left and the right. You should try to pick out a spectrum of different voices. And then you should hear their opinions. And then..."
"...And the reality is that these spiritual beings fall into a spectrum, okay, from demons to angels."
"...development as opposed to military intervention. The Russians use a full -spectrum strategy in Africa. So they're trying to win hearts and minds. We..."
"...your own politics? Where do you place yourself on the political spectrum?"
"...arts school, right? So they encourage you to take a wide spectrum of classes. There are four groupings. There's the languages. There's English. There's..."
"...from America, 50 % from Russia. So you have a whole spectrum of views. And what China will decide in April will depend on..."
"...um, Trump, when it comes to Venezuela, he's looking at a spectrum of options. The most ideal is that, uh, Machado comes into power...."
"side of the spectrum, which is he gives up all the power and he loses all the wealth."
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