Emerge: Making Sense of What’s Next
Society & Culture
Andrew J Taggart is a practical philosopher, Zen Buddhist, and entrepreneur. Recently Andrew wrote an article called 'Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation' that led me to reach out to him and schedule a conversation.
This episode was recorded a few months ago, but it occurs to me as exactly the right time to release it. If you are feeling panicked about the Corona Virus, I'd encourage you to slow down, get a hot cup of tea (or go for a walk outside) and enjoy this warm-spirited philosophical conversation.
We inquire about:
Why aren't human beings kinder to each other, let alone to all sentient beings?
Is liberalism, humanism, and nihilism at the root of the meta-crisis?
How social media requires a self-enclosed narcissistic humanism to function
How do we move beyond humanism into a new cosmological sense of being?
Is it possible to install new modes of being in time to confront the planetary challenges facing us?
The necessity of existential openings as a portal to self-inquiry
Whether we need to administer 'gentle shocks' to help people enter into spiritual crisis as quickly as possible
How can we help ensure that instances of emergency and crisis can touch the heart and open the spirit?
How do we precipitate mass existential opening?
How do we help others encounter the truths of their heart?
What Andrew has learned about having skillful philosophical conversations
The importance of becoming sensitive in conversation to what Andrew calls 'existential weight'
Why we must change our lives according to our existential truths, and the consequences of not doing so
What is an adequate new definition of the human being that supports the emergence of a broadly contemplative culture
Does wisdom arise from awakening, or does awakening arise from wisdom?
What are the most important virtues to be cultivated now, in this time between worlds?
Andrew's Home on the Internet
John Churchill - Attunement as World Medicine
Jordan Hall Converts to Christianity
Bob Falconer - Internal Family Systems and Spirit Possession
Tasshin - Fullstack Harmony for Maximum Deep Benefit
John Churchill - The Three Strands of Awakening [From the Coach's Rising Podcast]
Vince Horn - Meditate with AI
Bonnitta Roy, John Vervaeke, Thomas Steininger - Wisdom & Complexity [RSPND Network]
Jill Nephew - Using ChatGPT is Like Eating Plastic for Your Cognition
John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, Nora Bateson - What is Transformation? [RSPND Network]
Zak Stein - AI Tutor Apocalypse
David Sauvage - The Future of Collective Decision-Making
Gary Sheng - To Actualize Game B, Empower Gen Z
Steve March - An Integrated Ecology of Practice for the Meta-Crisis
Sean Wilkinson - Circling, Meditation & Trauma
Circling & Soulmaking with Ellen McSweeney & Daniel Thorson
Mark Feenstra - Renormaling: Fractal Harmony in Action
Layman Pascal - Spiritual Practice as Harmonization
Harmonizing to Emerge with John Vervaeke
Soryu Forall - Responding to Collapse: Virtue and Possibility at the World's End
Rob McNamara - Adult Development & Ensoulment
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