Steven Pressfield

I want the reader to buy into the fact that it is possible to be cursed to live lifetime after lifetime and that you're trying to learn a lesson and trying to free yourself.

And so I do want to take a reader on that journey and hopefully kind of make it painless, you know, not hammer somebody right over the head at the start, but ease you into it.

I think in one way, what we're talking about here is the ego and the soul, right?

The material, our existence on the material plane and our existence on a higher plane.

And we were talking about violence.

Violence is a product of the ego, right?

You know, we're talking about certain people that we know where the ego leads us to violence.

The only real cure in the end for each of us as an individual

and for the human race as a whole is to move however we do it to the level of the soul on the level of the soul there's only one emotion and that emotion is love

But can we get there?

We're mired in this body and this material ego, right, that has to defend itself and stand up for its position and gets et cetera, et cetera.

So that's really Telemann's odyssey through this story.

I'm tempted to talk about that Bobby Kennedy speech again.

That day, which I thought was fantastic.

And there's no such, this is the other thing that he said from Agamemnon.

Forgive me, this doesn't really have to do with.

No, it's important.

I want to hear it.

I mean, he says, and even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until against our, in our own despite, against our will comes wisdom by the awful grace of God.

which in a way is when those Greeks knew what they were talking about, right?