But we’ve all been seduced by lies; been seduced by stories that we’re separate independent beings, that we’re incomplete, that we’re not good, or certainly not perfect. That if we only do “such and such” then we’ll be better and things will be ok. This is the constant pattern that is continuously reflected in society’s “consensus reality”. It’s ubiquitous, implicit in advertising and media, the way we’re raised, the mindsets of the people who raised us. All this cultural information that we encounter as children, it’s all permeated with this idea of being “separate” , “incomplete”, “lacking”,
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