Can phenomenology’s emphasis on the primacy of lived experience in spirituality truly account for the possibility of a spiritual reality that exists independently of human consciousness, or does it, by focusing solely on subjective perception, unintentionally reduce the transcendent to the immanent, thus limiting the scope of spiritual inquiry to human centered frameworks??
@@GS42SCHOPAWE Immanent meaning as in the sense or significance found “directly” in experiences, perceptions, or things as they are encountered, rather than needing to refer to some external source
Three reactions: I feel like there is a deep, intense feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment at the center of spirituality that does not depend on external circumstances. It seems like music is related to spirituality because it can evoke feelings without using words. It seems like we have our attention habitually centered on the stream of consciousness, words and language and kind of filter out the rest of our experience of living life, and I think spirituality is an acceptable way to acknowledge aspects of life or existence that fall outside of concept and language.
1. The difference between spirituality and religion is spirituality has a question (fate, life, whatever) and is looking for the answer. Religion starts with the answer (God) and is looking for questions. 2. I found that the correlation between someone saying they are spiritual and them believing in all the conspiracies about covid, the government, vaccines, ... is close to 90%. So beware. 3. Humans seem to have innate spiritual/religious tendencies and they relate their perception of the world to that and their culture. As you said, no westerner is suddenly haveing visions about Vishna. So we're all crazy. If I were to start hallucinating about something thinking now I have some kind of revelation of God, I would rather go "damn, now I also went crazy like everyone else" rather than "oh so God IS actually a thing".
I'm probably going to love the video as usual, but I really don't like the AI looking thumbnail. Even though I usually enjoy the thumbnails, I don't think AI images should be used, since there are plenty of alternatives.
Always a treat!
Thank you Mr Cecil. you're work will definitely be put to good use.
Great work Wes! Long awaited lecture! You’ve convinced me to look more into Merleau-Ponty Philosophy!
My night just got so much better, thank you!
Thanks Wes!
Audio levels are very good
Can phenomenology’s emphasis on the primacy of lived experience in spirituality truly account for the possibility of a spiritual reality that exists independently of human consciousness, or does it, by focusing solely on subjective perception, unintentionally reduce the transcendent to the immanent, thus limiting the scope of spiritual inquiry to human centered frameworks??
Now there’s a question…
What do you mean by immanent
@@GS42SCHOPAWE Immanent meaning as in the sense or significance found “directly” in experiences, perceptions, or things as they are encountered, rather than needing to refer to some external source
Three reactions:
I feel like there is a deep, intense feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment at the center of spirituality that does not depend on external circumstances.
It seems like music is related to spirituality because it can evoke feelings without using words.
It seems like we have our attention habitually centered on the stream of consciousness, words and language and kind of filter out the rest of our experience of living life, and I think spirituality is an acceptable way to acknowledge aspects of life or existence that fall outside of concept and language.
Music isn't external?
two different thoughts
1. The difference between spirituality and religion is spirituality has a question (fate, life, whatever) and is looking for the answer. Religion starts with the answer (God) and is looking for questions.
2. I found that the correlation between someone saying they are spiritual and them believing in all the conspiracies about covid, the government, vaccines, ... is close to 90%. So beware.
3. Humans seem to have innate spiritual/religious tendencies and they relate their perception of the world to that and their culture. As you said, no westerner is suddenly haveing visions about Vishna. So we're all crazy. If I were to start hallucinating about something thinking now I have some kind of revelation of God, I would rather go "damn, now I also went crazy like everyone else" rather than "oh so God IS actually a thing".
Spiritualists are typically modern new-agers/gnostics
I'm probably going to love the video as usual, but I really don't like the AI looking thumbnail. Even though I usually enjoy the thumbnails, I don't think AI images should be used, since there are plenty of alternatives.
Sigh…. both takes so boomer coded
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@@jonmud born 2001 I am a certified non boomer. AI is ugly and should not be used in art
@ still a boomer take like ai art is up to u… saying ai art is ugly is like “books r dumb” simp self impo move
Visionary art has been something I've enjoyed long before AI was a thing. I enjoy much of this AI stuff because of it.