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The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

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Ken Wilber
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 31
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Oklahoma City
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Kenneth Earl Wilber II
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