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It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.

— Ram Dass Be Here Now (1971)

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It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.

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I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.

"Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage."

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A place where "I" existed independent of social and physical identity.

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I understood the requirement of being "objective" for a scientist, but this is a most naive concept in social sciences as we are finding out.

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