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Exercises in sceptical spirituality

The Perpetual Emptiness of Academic Philosophy

and its strange inability to address the one issue that matters

Peter Eastman
32 min readJun 7, 2021

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(Artwork by the author.)

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The purpose of this short study is to give some help to those hoping to gain an insight into the metaphysical realms of their being, and who would like some guidance with regard to those formal and academic disciplines supposedly geared to dealing with that very subject. If you are genuinely motivated by a sense of confusion and hopelessness when it comes to matters of your ultimate destiny and fulfilment, then you will surely feel greatly intimidated by the vast collection of material that already exists in fields such as philosophy…

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Peter Eastman
Peter Eastman

Written by Peter Eastman

Independent Buddhist counsellor, teacher & writer. Objective spirituality, devoid of doctrine, belief & faith. No paywall: https://petereastman.substack.com/.

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