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Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke on God, Meaning, Consciousness, and Being

Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke on God, Meaning, Consciousness, and Being

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal


Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke on God, Meaning, Consciousness, and Being

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Length:
133 minutes
Released:
Sep 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzT4tcC-aag
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LINKS MENTIONED:
- Matthew's Adopt Responsibility podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwP_qFSXmDs-79VMFmcQQw
- Garrett's This Could Be Interesting podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisCouldBeInteresting
- Physics Contest: https://youtu.be/V93GQaDtv8w
- John Vervaeke: https://youtu.be/3p8o3-7mvQc
- John and Bernardo: https://youtu.be/UWcTmeAs44I
- John and Joscha Bach: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4
- Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4
- Iain's book (Master and His Emissary): https://amzn.to/3r7L064
- Iain's book (The Matter With Things): https://amzn.to/3LELdak

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:44 Iain on the "meaning crisis"
00:09:29 John on the "meaning crisis"
00:15:10 Technology amplifies our lack of wisdom
00:18:26 Rationality and Belief (Iain vs. John)
00:28:35 Imaginary vs. Imaginal
00:37:03 Non-theism vs. Religion (against meditation as spiritual redress)
00:53:38 Not doing vs. Un-doing vs. Being passive vs. Un-Knowing
01:09:22 The way God sees us vs. The way we see God
01:22:06 Sam Harris, Closing yourself off to the Divine, and Terror
01:29:20 The importance of Sangha (community), and how can John's neoplatonism work?
01:40:43 Faith, Whitehead, and Reciprocal Opening
01:47:56 Against "being present"
01:54:58 Marrying a religion
02:04:24 Should we certainly give up on certainty?
02:06:06 On not speaking and the un-making of TOE
02:08:14 John and Iain summate
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Released:
Sep 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, free will, and God. If you'd like to support this podcast, then visit the Patreon (https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal). Thank you for your charitable and kind hearted support. My name is Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian filmmaker making a documentary on the above topics (as for what shape the final settled project will take, I'm unsure). During the exploratory phase, there will be a plethora of interviews / conversations with intellectuals placed on this channel -- approximately un-edited.