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Published: June 7, 2021, 7:03 p.m.

\u201cUnexamined beliefs are not worth having.\u201d \u2014 Socrates

Ways of Knowing

If empathy is something you can have or not have, then it\u2019s either a skill or a trait. If it\u2019s a skill, then you can develop it. If it\u2019s a trait, then you can express it, unless you don\u2019t have it in which case you might regain it or else it\u2019s simply not available\u2026

You can only empathize to the extent that you can recover and re-experience the emotions that comprise another person\u2019s experience. And you can only do this if you can re-experience each of these emotions in yourself\u2026

Thomas Ray proposes that the landscape of transcendent experience does not just have one peak, but several. These represent deeper insight into and experience of reality and human nature than are normally accessible to us\u2026

\u201cWe tend to lose touch with the way we knew the world as children...\u201d\u2014 Tom Ray

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