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Memories do not come only from personal experience; personal experience lets a person enter dialogue with the universe and absorb memories from elsewhere.
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Memories do not come only from personal experience; personal experience lets a person enter dialogue with the universe and absorb memories from elsewhere.
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The will to live and fight comes from being conscious beings in dialogue with an infinite and eternal universe.
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Love is the force that animates and unifies the universe; to access and know the universe, a person must love.
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Jiang claims poets are really prophets because they have a divine connection to the universe.
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Jiang uses Geist as a name for the universe and glosses it through ghost, gist, and geyser: underlying presence, essence, and eruptive becoming.
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Jiang treats Hegel's Geist, Jung's collective unconscious, Plato's forms and ideals, and Christian heaven as different names for the same universe.
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Jiang says memories are stored in the universe, which he likens to a divine psychic internet.
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Poets are able to access the universe and summon its memories.
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"...what is inside him. And what this is, ultimately, it's a universe unto itself, right? You have lots of different characters, right? The king,..."
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"...fact that we are conscious beings constantly in dialogue with the universe that is both infinite and eternal, okay? And this is what this..."
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"...Hector's body back, right? So what animates, what unifies this carcass universe is love. Love is God, guys. To really access this universe, to..."
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"...how does he know that? Because we're all connected by the universe, okay? He's able to imagine the soul of Achilles. And he knows..."
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"...able to work is they have a divine connection to the universe. Okay? What we call... Okay? So, there are different names for the..."
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"...will say Heaven. Whatever. Okay? All right? But these are the universe. All right? And remember how we said before our memories are stored..."
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"...do that because he's able to summon these people from the universe okay even though you're dead your consciousness is still alive in the..."
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"...and this is really important, guys, you connect directly to the universe, okay? So in other words, the Iliad was created because of inspiration..."
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"alive, so powerful, so connected to the universe itself, to the monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into..."
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"...is an antenna, okay? Your mind is an antenna to the universe, right? So when you read the Iliad, it's as though your download..."
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"...okay? He's just a portal for God to speak with the universe, with us. Poets are the hierophants of an apprehended inspiration, okay? The..."
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"...word of God. Right? Because what is truth? Truth is the universe, which is God. So when you speak truth, you're speaking the universe...."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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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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