I realised my conclusion was cut off whilst uploading this video, as well as my usual disclaimer... - Combining unique concepts was a great skill to exemplify in this essay - It revealed the pre-step for me to eventually embark on the path to Perennialism - Would be incredible to see at least some ideals of Plato's dream into our current political systems I am by no means claiming that I am knowledgable in everything except that I am in the humble pursuit of wisdom. Thank you for watching!
I’m not sure if I’ve interpreted your question correctly, but if you mean a short interview with yourself - I’d be happy to discuss further via the email on my channel page. Thank you!
I don't know how you came up in my video feed but I'm glad you did. You're right: there's a lot to unpack here. Your ideas are both timely and broadly relevant and I think they show a pretty keen understanding of some of society's more pressing social and political issues. I come from a Bahá'í religious background and have studied social change and global governance at the graduate level (not that I consider myself an expert in any capacity). I think the Bahá'í framework for global integration and social progress would be of real interest to you in your personal explorations. It's not a perfunctory how-to guide so much as it is a coherent vision and a set of moral principles and conceptual guidelines to follow in pursuing it. I just subscribed to your channel and your Substack. I hope you don't mind if I keep an eye on your future posts. Also, you write beautifully. Keep up the good work!
Thank you kindly for your feedback and recommendations. I’ve added the Bahá'í faith to my list of explorations. It would be an interesting video to compare this faith with Perennialism and Traditionalism.
I think you're already way ahead of the game. While I'm by no means an expert on either, I think both Perennialism and Traditionalism are largely analogous to the Bahá'í concept of Progressive Revelation-in short the idea that religious truth is revealed by God progressively over time through various Messengers and that the teachings of those Messengers are tailored to suit the needs of the time and place of their appearance. As humanity advances through progressive stages of development, Divine Prophets in turn introduce teachings that are appropriate to that stage of development. I've always thought of it in terms of the software updates that are necessary to accommodate advances in computer technology. (There is a continuity between Mac OS systems but your new MacBook Pro isn't going to run very well on Snow Leopard. Likewise, the old iMac you've got collecting dust in the basement isn't going to know what to do with the new beta version of Sequoia.) In this sense, each of these dispensations represent a fundamental, unified reality, while evolving social teachings reflect changes and developments within human society. Well, the upshot is that the Bahá'í worldview suggests that mankind is at a critical stage in its own development-one of a collective coming of age where it can no longer be denied that we are anything other than a single people constituting an interconnected, interdependent global reality. It views the chaos currently evident in the world as the interaction between forces of disintegration, in which old world structures reach and exceed their capacity to accommodate the challenges of the day, and integration, in which the systems that will define and characterise the next stages of humanity's development slowly come into focus. I'll leave it at that for now, but I eagerly await your next video. I'd be more than happy, of course, to chat about my journey if that would ever be helpful.
I realised my conclusion was cut off whilst uploading this video, as well as my usual disclaimer...
- Combining unique concepts was a great skill to exemplify in this essay
- It revealed the pre-step for me to eventually embark on the path to Perennialism
- Would be incredible to see at least some ideals of Plato's dream into our current political systems
I am by no means claiming that I am knowledgable in everything except that I am in the humble pursuit of wisdom. Thank you for watching!
Very interesting. Would you be open to a short interview sometime? Keep up the great work!
I’m not sure if I’ve interpreted your question correctly, but if you mean a short interview with yourself - I’d be happy to discuss further via the email on my channel page. Thank you!
I don't know how you came up in my video feed but I'm glad you did. You're right: there's a lot to unpack here. Your ideas are both timely and broadly relevant and I think they show a pretty keen understanding of some of society's more pressing social and political issues. I come from a Bahá'í religious background and have studied social change and global governance at the graduate level (not that I consider myself an expert in any capacity). I think the Bahá'í framework for global integration and social progress would be of real interest to you in your personal explorations. It's not a perfunctory how-to guide so much as it is a coherent vision and a set of moral principles and conceptual guidelines to follow in pursuing it. I just subscribed to your channel and your Substack. I hope you don't mind if I keep an eye on your future posts. Also, you write beautifully. Keep up the good work!
Thank you kindly for your feedback and recommendations. I’ve added the Bahá'í faith to my list of explorations. It would be an interesting video to compare this faith with Perennialism and Traditionalism.
I think you're already way ahead of the game. While I'm by no means an expert on either, I think both Perennialism and Traditionalism are largely analogous to the Bahá'í concept of Progressive Revelation-in short the idea that religious truth is revealed by God progressively over time through various Messengers and that the teachings of those Messengers are tailored to suit the needs of the time and place of their appearance. As humanity advances through progressive stages of development, Divine Prophets in turn introduce teachings that are appropriate to that stage of development. I've always thought of it in terms of the software updates that are necessary to accommodate advances in computer technology. (There is a continuity between Mac OS systems but your new MacBook Pro isn't going to run very well on Snow Leopard. Likewise, the old iMac you've got collecting dust in the basement isn't going to know what to do with the new beta version of Sequoia.) In this sense, each of these dispensations represent a fundamental, unified reality, while evolving social teachings reflect changes and developments within human society.
Well, the upshot is that the Bahá'í worldview suggests that mankind is at a critical stage in its own development-one of a collective coming of age where it can no longer be denied that we are anything other than a single people constituting an interconnected, interdependent global reality. It views the chaos currently evident in the world as the interaction between forces of disintegration, in which old world structures reach and exceed their capacity to accommodate the challenges of the day, and integration, in which the systems that will define and characterise the next stages of humanity's development slowly come into focus.
I'll leave it at that for now, but I eagerly await your next video. I'd be more than happy, of course, to chat about my journey if that would ever be helpful.