| We don’t understand the world
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| Like, I do think the world is more like a musical masterpiece than it is like
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| anything else
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| And things are oddly connected
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| Now, you know, I know that sounds New Agey and it sounds metaphysical
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| I’m saying bluntly that this is speculative, right
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| I’m feeling out beyond the limits of my knowledge
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| I’m not willing to dismiss
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| The mysterious
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| The mysterious
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| I’m not willing to dismiss the mysterious
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| I’ve experienced the mysterious in a variety of different ways and it’s very
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| mysterious
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| Very mysterious
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| We certainly know that we’re bounded by ignorance there’s far more going on
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| than we know or can know
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| We do
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| The problem is when you start to speculate it’s a projection of your imagination
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| Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing because knowledge advances through
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| projection of imagination
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| But the problem is you can see yourself reflected back at you
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| And then it’s self-fulfilling, so you can see what you want
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| The mysterious
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| The mysterious
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| I’m not willing to dismiss the mysterious
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| I’ve experienced the mysterious in a variety of different ways and it’s very
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| mysterious
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| Very mysterious
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| The most ancient ideas we have about the nature of reality are predicated on a
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| certain presupposition
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| And the presupposition is this
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| There’s two fundamental modes of being that characterise reality
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| One is the absolute, and the absolute is the sum total of everything
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| So if you think about things in their most unbounded possible form
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| If you think of things in their infinite number of potential variations
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| You can think about that as one pole of reality
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| It appears classically that people have regarded their encounters with the
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| absolute
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| Which is all those multiple levels of being that are beyond your perceptual
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| capacity
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| As equivalent to an encounter with God
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| The mysterious
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| The mysterious
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| I’m not willing to dismiss the mysterious
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| I’ve experienced the mysterious in a variety of different ways and it’s very
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| mysterious
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| Very mysterious |