Jiang says poetry joins the material and the spiritual, the here and the forever, and the present and the eternal by turning that conjunction into words.
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Jiang says poetry joins the material and the spiritual, the here and the forever, and the present and the eternal by turning that conjunction into words.
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Jiang defines the soul as the forever memory of all one's lives and one's connection to the spiritual.
Self-denial practices such as fasting or exposure to cold can collapse the body so consciousness shifts into the spiritual.
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"...words that are able to express both the material and the spiritual. The here and the forever, the present and the eternal, okay? A..."
"...things that we can experience that we cannot experience in the spiritual. When we're in the spiritual, we are formless. We don't have any..."
"...your body and you're approaching death, your consciousness shifts into the spiritual. Okay? So what's important to understand is death is not the end...."
"...to promote this view that the world is split between the spiritual and the material. The Americans are the Antichrist. The Americans support individual..."
"...permanently in order to experience things we cannot experience in the spiritual world, because in the spiritual world, it's not material. So what's really..."
"...exist in three different planes okay there is the ethereal the spiritual and the material okay so we're existing on multiple dimensions and when..."
"...about that kind of stuff. But also, there's also like the spiritual, religious, the eschatological incentive structure as well that Professor Jang has talked..."
"...leaders view the physical destruction of their own cities as a spiritual victory? Okay. It's not that hard to rebuild an economy in a..."
"...future believe that people will place greater emphasis on religion and spiritual life. But how exactly will this transformation occur?"
"So you need to cause a national spiritual rejuvenation in your country. And if you are, in the gray, you might have issues, okay?..."
"Where we are too materialistic and not spiritual enough. And what we know from history is that if you... If a society... If a..."
"...to engage in redemption, okay? Redemption. And redemption is really about spiritual alchemy, improving yourself as a person, being good to yourself, being good..."
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