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How intellectual understanding can become spiritual bypassing

I've read twenty books on consciousness and neuroscience but I still can't sit with difficult emotions without dissociating into my head.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conceptual knowledge is being used to avoid direct confrontation with uncomfortable somatic experience.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Scientific method as a way of knowing?”

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