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This talk tonight is part two of a series on seeking truth.

Part one was really what we might call radical self honesty where we began to shine the light

of awareness on the layers that are often unconscious.

The loneliness, the feelings of being special or being bad in some way, feelings of loneliness,

whatever is there that is really keeping us entranced and how when we begin to become

aware of what's unconscious and included in awareness, we're actually freed up to

really live from a more full and alive and spontaneous quality of being.

Tonight we're going to be deepening that inquiry and really looking at perhaps the most

fundamental illusion we live with that keeps us from the truth of who we are, which is

that perception of being separate, that I am a separate egoic self in the world out

here and I'm in here.

And so we'll be looking really at the inquiry that all spiritual traditions have, which is

who am I or what am I really.

And from the get go I want to say that this inquiry is not relevant or the most useful

inquiry for everybody at all times.

I mean there's times when we're really there's a lot of strong weather systems coming through,

a lot of confusion, hurt or pain and we really need to focus on how do we bring some kind

of self compassion clarity to that.

But there's other times when things quiet down a bit and we can begin to ask that very

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