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The more virtuous a person becomes, the more visions they can receive, because sin binds them to the material world and weakens connection to universal truth.
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He characterizes the Cathars as gnostic-like believers in a direct connection to God and in the relative unimportance of the material world compared with spiritual life.
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A student summarizes the lesson as following the heart, exercising free will, and not being restricted by the material world.
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Jiang argues that the brain's ordinary function is to anchor human beings to the material world by strategically filtering information needed for survival rather than exposing the full field of reality.
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Jiang says God creates the laws of the universe and then lets those laws operate, so plants and other material creatures arise under physics, biology, and chemistry rather than through constant direct intervention.
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Ego and fear are described by Jiang as forces that bind human beings to the material world.
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A student suggests that because God is within human beings, human free will could be one way God experiences the material world from within creation.
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A student proposes that reason explains the material world, while intuition and imagination let human beings reach beyond material constraints toward the greater realities that poetry and writing answer to.
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"...sins what sins really do is they brought you down to material world they make you forget the universal truth right which is the..."
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"...to God, who is the Monad, the source. And that this material world doesn't really matter. What matters is our spiritual life. And these..."
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"...do the free will and do not be restricted by the material world."
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"...that our brains exist in order to anchor ourselves to this material world and we have to believe that this material world is what's..."
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"like get food you have to like get along with other people you have to have sex you don't have children right yeah and..."
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"Right. So do you guys understand God create the laws of the universe? You understand the laws of the universe is, is what gives..."
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"Hello, can you hear me? I think heaven is for us to meet God and to have a spiritual intellectual connection with God and..."
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"...So ego and fear are things that bind us to this material world. Thank you. Yes? Can you hear me?"
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"Because God is actually within us. So he wants to experience it."
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"...to an extent, logic and reason, they try to explain the material world, but when we go into the realm of intuition and imagination,..."
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"...categorization is important because categorization allows you to better manipulate the material world. Does that make sense, guys? When you're able to categorize things,..."
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"Once your ego and your fear dissipate, you can now resurrect yourself as you truly are. Okay? Again, this is a theory. I'm not..."
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