The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 216 of 254

No memory of a previous life

Revealingly, however, there is an absence of any semblance of a personal relationship between Akong II and Akong I. Most obviously, Akong says of his previous life, ‘I don’t remember anything.’

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