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Love is Madness

Love is Madness

[3:16] “Is it possible to preserve the lover and the poet without preserving the lunatic?” – Bertrand Russe…

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Singularity

Singularity

[2:18] “We are beset with a thirst for meaning and connection that centuries of skeptical philosophy, hardhead…

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Cleansing Our Perception

Cleansing Our Perception

[3:22] “The other world is this world rightly seen.” – Nisargadatta Join Jason Silva as he freestyles compl…

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Why Do We Fall In Love?

Why Do We Fall In Love?

[2:41] “What we regard as normality is our collective, protective madness, in which we repress the grim truth ab…

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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

[4:51] The first photograph taken of earth, from space, occasioned a profound shift in our understanding of ourselves …

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Creativity Is Madness

Creativity Is Madness

[2:01] “We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it …

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Schizophrenia and Depression

Schizophrenia and Depression

[2:55] “The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs fr…

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