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Otherness with Cate Montana
Cate Montana, MA, is author of Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within and is coauthor of The Heart of the Matter and Underground Physics. Her most recent book is The E-Word: Ego, Enlightenment and Other Essentials. Here she addresses the fundamental distinction made by all humans between self and other. She notes that this distinction breaks down in mystical states in which the self or ego dissolve. She also points out that “otherness” in sociology is often associated with fear and, therefore, the need to control. The issue of otherness is pronounced with regard to…
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