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Nov 2022
23m 45s

Whirlpools in Universal Consciousness

Nadia Hassan
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The article I’ll be reading today unpacks what makes a good metaphor, why metaphors are so valuable to our pursuit of Truth, and invites us to appreciate the simple elegance and explanatory power of one metaphor in particular, favored both in Eastern and Western thought. 
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