Science didn’t originate in the East because it necessitates a deeply felt sense of separation from the world.
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A lot of modern physics is matching up with the taoist view of the universe
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Indeed it is—but its metaphysical starting point is vastly different, which is why everything it realizes is initially very difficult to digest for the layman with a Western conditioning.
Terence McKenna compares the scientist to the shaman in The Invisible Landscape:
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