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Consciousness is unique at one level but expands infinitely until it connects with other people and ultimately everything in the universe.
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Consciousness is unique at one level but expands infinitely until it connects with other people and ultimately everything in the universe.
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He interprets Dante's vision of God as the universe before the Big Bang, a chaotic pool of substances and relations before creation disperses them into our universe.
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Jiang describes the Bronze Age world around 1200 BCE as an interconnected trade zone linking Mycenaean Greece, Anatolia, Canaan, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Mediterranean, Iberia, and Britain.
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The Amazonian religious world is presented as one in which every rock, waterfall, plant, and animal is saturated with meaning and belongs to one connected whole.
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In the animist model Jiang develops, nature and culture are not separate; humans, plants, animals, rivers, and forests are responsible for the collective well-being of creation.
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Jiang says the shared idea across these religions is that animals, plants, and humans are interconnected and that the spirit world or forest is the real world.
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Jiang defines animism as the belief that every living thing has a soul and all living things are interconnected, making it probably the first religion.
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"So another way we can understand this concept is, imagine these people together. You have all these people together. So how consciousness works is..."
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"That light, sublime, which in itself is true. From that point on, what I could see was greater and then speech couldn't show. At..."
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"Donnie is experiencing God as the universe before the universe. Before the big bang. And he's seeing how everything is connected. But he's immortal...."
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"Okay, so today we will discuss the Bronze Age collapse. I want to paint you a picture of the world in about 1200 BCE...."
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"And of course, remember, these are the steppes. So, for Mycenaean Greece, you also had the Mediterranean. And over here are the islands of..."
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"Copper is mainly found in Cyprus, and Crete, and also in Anatolia. Now, meaning, and what this means is, in order to make bronze,..."
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"So, what this is doing is explaining to you how everything started, okay? Where everything comes from. So, completeness is important. The last thing..."
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"Every rock and waterfall embodies a story. Plants and animals are but distinct physical manifestations of the same essential spiritual essence. Okay? We all..."
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"cosmic origin and a profound sense are seen as essentially identical responsive to the same principles obligated by the same duties responsible for the..."
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"So it's almost the same religion, okay? Maybe the details are different, but the idea is the same. The idea is that we are..."
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"as we play our part then the world will be harmonious and balanced and perfect okay does that make sense okay does that make..."
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"...same thing for print of people okay they saw themselves as interconnection with nature and so they have to respect nature and therefore they..."
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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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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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