Session 80: Awareness of Awareness and Potentially the Last Soap Box Speech on Materialism

Alan Wallace Shamatha Teachings Fall 2010

Nov 19, 201000:50:46Religion & Spirituality

This morning Alan took another stab at modern scientific reductionism – the tendency to reduce everything to an objective, solid reality, independent of an observer. He cited William James’ experience at Harvard Medical...

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