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Breaking Free of Our Trance, Escaping The Gordian Knot: Summary Part 13 - 2 (Transcending Paradigms)

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"You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up

In the dark with eyes closed.

Listen to the answer:

'There is no other world.

I only know what I've experienced.

You must be hallucinating.'"

Rumi

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Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) || Woodstock (We Are Stardust)

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The primary (counterintuitive) point of this essay is that what we need most is not merely economic or political justice. Rather, it is emotional, intellectual, and spiritual maturity. The rest will naturally follow.

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I work as a psychotherapist with an emphasis on transformational learning - a blend of psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches, and am the author of Self Actualization and Unselfish Love and co-author of Families Helping Families: Living with (more...)
 

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