020 - The Stories, Identities, and Values That Orient Us with Andrew Choflet

In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, Andrew Choflet, about how our beliefs, values, and identities inform the stories we tell about ourselves, each other, and the world, and orient how we show up in all areas of life.

Follow Andrew on IG @andrewchoflet. Check out his Substack, Agile Faith, here!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode:

• The consequences of the loss of religion and spirituality in Western society, and the need for a unifying belief system

• The conflict between and compatibility of scientific thought and religious beliefs, and figuring out what we actually believe ourselves on our own terms

• What the Bible actually is, and how, according to a deep analysis by Dr. Jordan Peterson and others, it is the world's most influential book, or rather, a library of books

• The lack of empathy in those misinterpreting and misrepresenting people they disagree with, and the importance of finding common ground to move conversations forward

• The cultural baggage around religious language and stories vs modernity and secularism

• How the use of story and myth to pass down knowledge is what makes us human

• My trip to Miami to see a modern-day prophet, Dr. Lovy Elias, and my Messiah complex

• How humanity is a superorganism

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Other things mentioned/to check out:

• Determine your own hierarchy of values with the help of Dr. John Demartini

• The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (The ARC)

• Actualized.org's amazingly in-depth podcast episodes, What is God? Part 1: A No Bullshit Explanation for Smart People and Part 2: Clear Answers to 70+ Commonly Asked Questions

• The Bible Project and their Paradigm podcast series

• Dr. Wayne Dyer

• Yahya Bakkar

• Dr. Bruce Lipton

• After Skool's video of Dr. Jordan Peterson on the virtue in and need to Become a Monster and learn to control it

• Kurzgesagt's video about the evolution of humanity and adding 10,000 years to our calendar to make it more accurate

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.