21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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are deluded to think that pleasure can be fulfilled in some absolute way — either in another life or by some kind of substitute satisfaction of material wealth, power or status in this life. It is rather by way of an alternative symbolic — a symbolic of birth and becoming — that we are helped. However, in our encounters with wild nature and the wildness within ourselves — our bodies, our souls — we encounter the paradox of the creative force of the universe and its reciprocal. We experience both form and formlessness. Such desire is always paradoxical — it can never really be satisfied. But that is how things should be.

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