Jiang's phrase for the material world in Plato, where ordinary things are imitations of ideal forms.
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shadow realm
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...or imitation of this horse, okay? So we live in a shadow realm, okay, a shadow realm, where everything is imitation, okay? This is..."
"...ego and so if your consciousness is directed like in this realm then you'll think about like money time house material objects about yourself..."
"...there is like improving uh converging point into like the exterior realm media products and ai where our consciousness is directed into thinking about..."
"realm that could save human life um in Macbeth I think the idea of a restoration of of an order of things which God..."
"...ever see the land that lies between romania and the the realm of charles that you'd be courteous to me and treating those in..."
"...all be unified as capital t truth and he's in the realm of liars right and so essentially he would be like the longer..."
"...there on both of them. The one one is within the realm of the fabric of the universe. One is clearly not right."
"...be contingent on this um he's in the he's in the realm of false counselors and he obviously he went on the the boat..."
"...Oh, holy muses made this poem rise again from hell's dead realm and make hell. Yeah. I hope he rise somewhat here accompanying my..."
"...inclined to us. I'll let, allow our journey through your seven realms. I shall thank her for kindness. You bestow. If you would let..."
"...so when you read the divine comedy each of these different realms whether they are uh inferno purgatory or paradise there's always a complex..."
"...alone let him be gone for he was reckless entering this realm let him return alone on his mad road or try to if..."
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