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		<title>Dreaming &#8211; Wish Fulfilment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have been learning to become conscious in your dreams, to take better control of them and of course this gives you god-like powers that you never have in waking life. The power to fly, to move things with your mind, to travel in time, to meet historical figures, to have sex with film stars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &#8211; Empathy &#8211; The Meditation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month we present our final guided lucid dream, this time designed to help you dream your way to increased empathy.
We&#8217;ve seen how empathy is a skill which evolved though the fact that it offers a personal advantage, to you as an individual, and roughly how these processes work. We intend, then, to introduce a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &#8211; Empathy &#8211; Mechanisms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen that your ability to empathize, to feel what others are feeling automatically, instinctively, just from the look on their face, the words they utter, the tone in their voice, the simple knowledge of their plight, or any combination of these, has evolved because it&#8217;s actually genuinely helpful. To you. Not because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &#8211; Empathy &#8211; Why Is It Useful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we looked at the biological implementation of  empathy &#8212; the way you can feel another&#8217;s feelings &#8212; and looked at some of the evolutionary reasons for such a mental power to exist, why it might evolve.
However, just because something is useful to genetic evolution does not mean it&#8217;s useful to you, personally. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &#8211; Empathy &#8211; Biology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolution
We&#8217;ve mentioned many times before that the human race is a highly social species, living in familial groups and further, even in groups of families. Whole communities of people manage to live together in relative harmony. This group living gives many advantages over a solitary animal. We can spot danger for each other, feed each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Skills &#8211; Language &#8211; Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously explained, language lets us program each others brains. It allows one human being to simulate the experience of another human being just by listening to the coded string of phonemes that the other speaks.
It can do more than simply allow one person to describe the physical events that they experienced. More than allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Skills &#8211; Language &#8211; Dangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we discussed the way a language&#8217;s meaning encodes the experience of masses of generations of people into a format suitable for moulding the mind of a person living in a culture, and allowing those who share that language to edit each other&#8217;s brains.
This is, of course, incredibly powerful, but it also has dangers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Skills &#8211; Language &#8211; Brain Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no other creature on this planet which can communicate with the same depth, the same level of abstraction, the same amount of detail, as human beings. Our languages are really the pinnacle of communication techniques developed by evolution. There is nothing in the animal, mineral, vegetable, fungal or micro-biotic worlds which even begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Skills &#8211; Language &#8211; Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we addressed how to influence others, and this month we&#8217;ll be discussing language. Language is, as far as we can tell, the most incredible tool for influencing other creatures that has ever evolved on this planet.
Think of it, just a few words uttered to you can transport your mind through time and space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to you all from the Transcendence Institute.
We&#8217;re approaching the end of Lap3 of our course around the Transcendence Spiral, with just one round-up lap to go. Assuming all goes to plan, we&#8217;ll finish that in November this year, bringing an end to our initial course of 32 guided meditations designed to improve [...]]]></description>
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