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The more-real world that grounds visible existence, receives souls, and must be honored through tribute and ritual.
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spirit world
The more-real world that grounds visible existence, receives souls, and must be honored through tribute and ritual.
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For most of human history, humans interpreted right-brain contact with the universe as gods and spirits; this may be non-factual but truthful because it helps people understand themselves and reality.
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Ancient burials and ancestor worship are evidence that the dead were experienced as still present and able to speak, advise, or demand accommodation.
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Amazonian mythology is presented as a complete, unified, complex universe where natural forms have spiritual essence and visible reality is only one layer of perception.
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Caves are interpreted as portals where humans call animals back into the spirit world, completing the cycle of life and death through ritual art.
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He uses Hegel's Geist as the answer: the noumenon is spirit world, time and space come from one source, and shared reality is possible because the same source structures experience.
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Near-death experiences and psychedelics are presented as the payoff for the royal family and priests because they give access to the spirit world, God, wisdom, and a feeling of being truly divine.
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A second theory offered in the answer is that love is a physical force; after death, more love allows higher ascent, while less love traps the person in return.
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Hegel's Geist is introduced as the answer to Kant's three problems: what reality is, who gives humans filters, and how people perceive the same world.
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"question then is how do we interpret these vibrations well for most of human history we've interpreted them as just gods and spirits okay..."
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"all right so this and this is Julian James James okay and he wrote a book called the origin of consciousness in the breakdown..."
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"propped up on stones whose voices were hallucinated by the living were the first gods okay does that make sense to you we lived..."
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"they could help you access the dead in the spirit world and and and draw wisdom and inspiration from them this is a book..."
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"people and they're very complex and sophisticated mythology okay so these are these are called called people of the anaconda okay in the beginning..."
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"guaranteed a happy and prosperous life okay so let's read the story of the people living together the people living today in the forest..."
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"a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive plants and animals are human beings sap and blood the bodily fluids of..."
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"And the spirit world and material world were connected together. So the other question then is, how does the spirit world connect with the..."
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"...like them in order to better communicate with them in the spirit world to draw them back, okay? Okay, so this is another religious..."
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"The stars, the caves are portals into the spirit world, and that's why you celebrate them, okay? And how are they painting the caves?..."
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"...So what he's saying is that the nomana, it's really the spirit world, it's the Geist. And when you do this, it solves all..."
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"...when you are feel you're almost dead you transcend into the spirit world in the spirit world you actually meet god and we know..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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