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    Spirituality Is Not About Transcendence, but About Repair

    A live Q&A session with David Verdesi. The session opens with reported cases of heart-transplant recipients adopting traits of their donors and moves into identity, integrating foreign elements into the psyche, boundaries, repetition in practice, finding a teacher, and the complexity of helping others.

    Key topics: Identity · Integration · Repetition · Helping Others

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    In This Conversation

    1. 00:47Heart Transplants and Spirituality
    2. 04:55Multiple Personalities and Identity
    3. 10:21Integrating Foreign Elements into the Psyche
    4. 15:59Addressing Psychic Attacks and Boundaries
    5. 23:05Overcoming Overwhelm and Finding Clarity
    6. 31:49The Importance of Repetition in Spiritual Practice
    7. 41:20Challenging Assumptions and Reformulating Questions
    8. 44:00The Role of Diet in Spiritual Practice
    9. 46:36Finding the Right Teacher
    10. 49:04Purification and Guilt
    11. 55:37Understanding the Ecosystem of Self
    12. 01:08:17The Danger of Arrogance in Spiritual Practice
    13. 01:13:56The Complexity of Helping Others

    Topic timestamps from the original publication.

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