• novibe@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      Yup yup. But I guess you don’t know the Rule of One material, the Ra books. It’s a very popular new age esoteric material, allegedly channeled from an entity in Venus called Ra. Its philosophy seems to be at least inspired by this Grok book. The Ra material is from the 60s.

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        4 days ago

        Stranger in a strange land was 1961 so maybe, though understanding and free love were pretty common principals at the time.

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          3 days ago

          But the idea that you can only truly know what you love, and you can only love what you fully accept, is pretty specific 🤔

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              3 days ago

              Idk man, I don’t think it is. When I first read the Ra material I said something to the same effect to basically everybody I knew and it seemed like a really novel idea to all of them 🤷‍♂️

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                3 days ago

                To be fair most people aren’t familiar with philosophy, like 5 episodes of the good place gives people more philosophical education then the general population has normally.

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                  3 days ago

                  100%, yeah. But still, this love understanding stuff is very popular among esoteric circles. So there must be a more direct connection than just “hippies talked about love” 🤔