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Jiang says the first modern myth is that humans are driven by material desire; his counterclaim is that humans are fundamentally religious-spiritual beings who want to create, love, connect, differentiate, and explore.
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Spiritual Being
Jiang says the first modern myth is that humans are driven by material desire; his counterclaim is that humans are fundamentally religious-spiritual beings who want to create, love, connect, differentiate, and explore.
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"Why is there a helicopter? Why is there a cat? Okay? Well, that's how we truly are. Okay? We don't have a concept of..."
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"They're not true. The first myth is we humans are driven by material desires. Okay? So, why do we want... So, what do we..."
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"...not who we are we what we are are fundamentally religious spiritual beings that want to create and to love and to connect okay..."
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"...see the earth as potent the force as being alive with spiritual beings and ancestral powers to"
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"...see the Earth as potent, the force as being alive with spiritual beings and ancestral powers. To live off the land is to embrace..."
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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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