• Madison420@lemmy.world
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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” 🤔