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In Jiang's reincarnation model, memories of former selves and the spiritual realm are lost so that people can actually live the lives they live.
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In Jiang's reincarnation model, memories of former selves and the spiritual realm are lost so that people can actually live the lives they live.
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Imagination is the animating force of the world: by imagining the world, humans make it alive.
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Jiang defines animism as the belief that humans, animals, and plants share one source of life from the mother goddess and that every living being has a soul.
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Jiang presents the mother goddess as a theorized Catalhoyuk deity of life, represented by birds or vultures because birds belong to the sky.
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"...spiritual are lost to us. Otherwise, we can't actually live the life that we live, okay? But poetry, because it connects both to the..."
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"...you and the imagination is the animating force okay what gives life to the world is not god but our imagination by imagining the..."
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"...um adam out of dust and he breathed the essence of life into adam now there are two ways of looking at this painting..."
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"...we all come from the mother goddess, from one source of life, including trees, animals, and humans. So, every living being has a soul."
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"Okay? And the other thing is that the soul is permanent. You can never kill it. Okay? The body and the soul are different...."
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"...a mother goddess. Okay? Because a mother goddess is what gives life to everything. Right? Think of mother nature. Think of a woman giving..."
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"...iran most people just want to live to live a decent life so they feel that these molas the irgc are a threat to..."
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"...is a man who loves the spotlight. He's lived all his life in the spotlight. For him, death is to be ignored. So given..."
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"...and bad. They dictate habits and customs, how you live your life. And they dictate the legal system, who's punished for what. Okay? And..."
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"...he argues that we are human beings and we have natural life cycles because we're organisms. Well, societies are the same way where empires,..."
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"...which is, if the US empire does collapse, how does American life change or Western life change?"
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"...going to happen. It's really about how do I live my life to the fullest? How do I become a much more creative individual..."
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