Absence of Mind

Key Insight 1: Modern Thought's Flawed Authority

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Key Insight 2: The Dismissal of Inwardness

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Key Insight 3: The "Threshold" Illusion

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Key Insight 4: Altruism's "Strange History"

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Key Insight 5: Freud's Contextualized Theories

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Key Insight 6: The Mind as a Shielded Self

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Key Insight 7: The Enduring Dualism

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Key Insight 8: Humanity's Unsolved Mystery

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Key Insight 9: Science's True Nature

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Key Insight 10: The Richness of Human Testimony

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