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School of Athens dramatizes the split between Plato's heaven-oriented spiritual reality and Aristotle's earth-oriented science, while insisting both realities matter.
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Spiritual Reality
School of Athens dramatizes the split between Plato's heaven-oriented spiritual reality and Aristotle's earth-oriented science, while insisting both realities matter.
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Jiang says animism is the distant past behind this nostalgia: hunter-gatherers saw themselves as the same as trees and animals, part of Mother Nature and the life cycle, inhabiting both material and spiritual realities.
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"All right? So that's the very ideal of the Renaissance, open -mindedness, exploration. And holistic learning. All right. So let's look at this painting...."
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"Okay? What he's saying is, the real world, what matters is heaven. And what Aristotle is saying is, no, what matters is down here..."
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"So they're splitting the two. And as you can see, there's depth to this painting. Okay? There's a sky to the back. There are..."
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"Right? And it's very similar by the way to the ideas found in Hinduism and Buddhism. Okay? The Allegory in the Cave is the..."
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"...world which is the material reality but we're also inhabiting the spiritual reality as well. And what we do spiritually matters a lot more..."
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"...different realities. There's the material reality, but then there's also a spiritual reality. And they're both important. All right? Now what's amazing here is..."
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"...human history, we believed there were many realities, there was a spiritual reality. There were many spiritual realities, and in those realities, money didn't..."
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"...we live in today. You are not allowed to think of spiritual realities. In school, we do not teach the idea of a spiritual..."
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"...everywhere every day we're not in regards because we believe in spiritual realities okay"
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"...okay something that we believe most most of human history is spiritual reality is real okay there's a higher plane there are higher dimensions"
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"...into the spiritual realms by living spiritual lives on earth okay spiritual reality is real now today we only believe that material reality is..."
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"...believe that slavery was the worst evil. If you believe in spiritual realities, and you believe that when you die, you will just ascend..."
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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