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As I've mentioned to you before, each of the three aspects of experience, so the things

you know, the things you don't know, and the fact of yourself, have a very ambivalent underlying

structure, both positive and negative, so that the things you don't know are interesting

and compelling and the sources of new information, but also the source of the things that undermine

you both physically and mentally.

The things you know, of course, your culture disciplines you and shapes you into a full

person, but also at exactly the same time, molds you and crushes you in a particular direction

rather than any of the other directions you might have gone in.

And finally, with regards to the individual, we spent a substantial amount of time discussing

the individual's capability, capacity to make order out of chaos and sometimes to make chaos

out of order in the service of a higher order, and that's all to the good, but just like

culture and nature have their negative aspects so do the individual.

And I think personally, this is where Christian mythology, in particular, comes into its own.

I think of all the major religions.

Christianity has the most thoroughly developed what you might describe as formal model of

evil, and that model isn't part of the canonical writings of Christianity, say, encapsulated

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