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The ongoing process by which people enter embodied lives, forget former selves and the spiritual realm, yet retain buried past-life memory in the soul that poetry can reawaken.
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reincarnation
The ongoing process by which people enter embodied lives, forget former selves and the spiritual realm, yet retain buried past-life memory in the soul that poetry can reawaken.
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A cycle in which consciousness escapes back to the spiritual after death and may return much later.
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The belief that Frank continues through new bodies, tied here to Eva and incestuous reproduction.
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Memories do not come only from personal experience; personal experience lets a person enter dialogue with the universe and absorb memories from elsewhere.
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Jiang uses Buddhist and Hindu reincarnation as a model for wisdom: souls assume many roles through pain and suffering until empathy produces enlightenment.
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Beautiful poetic language reawakens memory because human beings are always in a process of reincarnation.
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Jiang says embodied life permits experiences unavailable in the formless spiritual realm, including sex, pain, and love.
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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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Jiang defines the soul as the forever memory of all one's lives and one's connection to the spiritual.
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The secret of the universe is immortality, reincarnation, and godhood, powered by love and imagination; most people will fail, but consciousness is forever.
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The Eva incest passage is interpreted as an attempt to create another body for Frank’s reincarnation.
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"Okay, so we said that this shield of Achilles, it's actually the soul of Achilles, okay? What his consciousness is, what is inside him...."
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"Our experiences stay with us. The poetry in us stays with us, and it's constantly being rewritten. Okay? And that's where our power comes..."
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"Okay, and so now the... And now this is a resolution, okay? This is the epiphany of Achilles. He recognizes his guilt. And now..."
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"And we do that because we reincarnate and we assume different roles, right? So maybe in this life, we are the murderer. But in..."
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"...really important idea where we are always in a process of reincarnation, all right?"
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"So why are we here in this world? Because there are things that we can experience that we cannot experience in the spiritual. When..."
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"So you have all these past lives in you that you don't remember. But a certain word, a certain poem will reignite, re -enaminate,..."
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"...But it's okay because, why? Because our consciousness is forever. So, reincarnation means that when we die we can escape back to the spiritual..."
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"...good secret of the universe. This is the secret to immortality, reincarnation, and godhood."
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"August 28th, 1762. Her Highness OBM traveled from this place to the Lord."
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"Okay, so they're in Poland. Her Highness is a daughter, right? Eva. Okay, the Messiah. Keep on going."
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"She arrived there the 8th of September, stayed and on the day of judgment had sexual relations with the Lord for the first time...."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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...
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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