Emergentism: The Religion That's Not a Religion

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We discuss metamodernism and author Brendan Graham Dempsey's Emergentism, a religion of complexity. Brendan's work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity.
He earned his bachelors in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his masters in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, where he runs the holistic retreat center Sky Meadow.
❶ Brendan's Origin Story
0:00 Highlights
6:56 Calls to Adventures (Raised in Vermont, Evangelical Christian)
8:35 Postmodern cultural influence & Nietzsche at 10 years old
13:45 Religious upbringing, apologetics colliding with critical exploration
20:35 Religious studies & classics in college
22:00 Turning point: Historical Jesus studies (an apocalyptic prophet)
25:10 Faustian, nihilistic plunge
❷ Metamodernism
28:00 Brendan's aesthetic epoch (Acolyte in Cult of Beauty)
36:00 What is metamodernism?
42:15 Carlos is a metamodern newb, halp! (+opponent processing)
45:20 Postmodernity all critique, Modernity all utopian naive idealism, Metamodernism holds in check
48:00 Postmodernism is to Seinfeld as Metamodernism is to...
52:25 Outlining Brendan's 6 books in his Metamodern Spirituality series
❸ Emergentism
1:02:45 Carlos' book review
1:03:50 What is emergence?
1:07:25 Reductionism can lead to nihilism... all is "just xyz"
1:09:25 Bobby Azarian's The Romance of Reality (non-equilibrium thermodynamics)
1:22:05 Proto-Darwinian dissipatitive adaptation (Jeremy England)
1:30:25 The Edge of Chaos lost its juice?
1:32:55 What is Emergentism? Religion of complexity...
1:40:35 Defining Emergentism as a grand narrative of reality...
1:43:00 Goals for The Truth channel
1:45:05 What about secular people who claim they don't have a spiritual need?
1:51:30 How do you make Emergentism accessible to everyone? (Brendan goes to bed every night thinking of this!)
2:00:25 What does an Emergentist lifestyle look like?
2:08:00 How does Brendan live by Emergentism?
2:13:55 On vegetarianism
2:16:55 Omega by Julian, a mythopoetic complexity narrative
2:22:00 If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what'd it be?
🚩Links to Brendan 🚩
Website: www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/
Channel: / @brendangrahamdempsey
Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World www.amazon.com/Emergentism-Re...
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@Carlos.Explains Жыл бұрын

❶ Brendan's Origin Story 6:56 Calls to Adventures (Raised in Vermont, Evangelical Christian) 8:35 Postmodern cultural influence & Nietzsche at 10 years old 13:45 Religious upbringing, apologetics colliding with critical exploration 20:35 Religious studies & classics in college 22:00 Turning point: Historical Jesus studies (an apocalyptic prophet) 25:10 Faustian, nihilistic plunge ❷ Metamodernism 28:00 Brendan's aesthetic epoch (Acolyte in Cult of Beauty) 36:00 What is metamodernism? 42:15 Carlos is a metamodern newb, halp! (+opponent processing) 45:20 Postmodernity all critique, Modernity all utopian naive idealism, Metamodernism holds in check 48:00 Postmodernism is to Seinfeld as Metamodernism is to... 52:25 Outlining Brendan's 6 books in his Metamodern Spirituality series ❸ Emergentism 1:02:45 Carlos' book review 1:03:50 What is emergence? 1:07:25 Reductionism can lead to nihilism... all is "just xyz" 1:09:25 Bobby Azarian's The Romance of Reality (non-equilibrium thermodynamics) 1:22:05 Proto-Darwinian dissipatitive adaptation (Jeremy England) 1:30:25 The Edge of Chaos lost its juice? 1:32:55 What is Emergentism? Religion of complexity... 1:40:35 Defining Emergentism as a grand narrative of reality... 1:43:00 Goals for The Truth channel 1:45:05 What about secular people who claim they don't have a spiritual need? 1:51:30 How do you make Emergentism accessible to everyone? (Brendan goes to bed every night thinking of this!) 2:00:25 What does an Emergentist lifestyle look like? 2:08:00 How does Brendan live by Emergentism? 2:13:55 On vegetarianism 2:16:55 Omega by Julian, a mythopoetic complexity narrative 2:22:00 If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what'd it be?

@ajsindri2 Жыл бұрын

OMG, I can't wait to watch this. I highly recommend Christopher Langan's paper "Metareligion as the Human Singularity."

@Carlos.Explains Жыл бұрын

Thanks Lao! Reading it now. =)

@givemorephilosophy Жыл бұрын

26 min The real truth and being open to questioning what you believed in 🙂🙂🙂Salute you guys for authentic transparent conversation 🙏🙏🙏

@spencern22 11 ай бұрын

Dude this was so freaking good. Just from a pure structure and listening perspective, this had an excellent flow and y’all had a great rapport. The information as well was superb and I learned a TON, but I aspire to incorporate what you’ve done in terms of the dialog itself. Kudos and thank you for putting this out there!

@Complaints-Department 11 ай бұрын

The best way I can sum up metamodernism in a way that makes sense to me is: suspension of disbelief is the modern story telling approach, deconstruction of belief is the post-modern approach, reconstructive-beleif based on the understanding of suspension and apprehensive approaches to storytelling or: a meta-cognitive splice of suspension/apprehension where one is capable of sharing the mindset of the performative subject in a way that both feels individually authentic and collectively shared. One is aware they are being entertained and they are entertained even more by this meta-cognitive reflective exercise. It is merging the subjective with the objective in a way that makes us feel like the 4th wall is incorporated into the media deliberately with us in mind. It feels like the story is speaking directly to us instead of casting aimlessly in the first two linear storytelling methods in hopes of finding a target demographic; metamodernism turns this idea on its head by daring you not to relate to the story in some way.

@Carlos.Explains 11 ай бұрын

I like this interpretation.

@givemorephilosophy Жыл бұрын

40 min Getting Rid of bitterness is the first step to become spiritual and move towards resolved state. Knowing is what will get us to clarity. As J. Krishnamoorthy spelt out state of being choiceless since we know the only possible reality as it exists. 🙏🙏

@BarackObamaJedi Жыл бұрын

Bitterness, or in Deleuzian terms, ressentiment

@givemorephilosophy Жыл бұрын

34 min Connecting the cultural dots of humanity... I would welcome both of you to help grasp Existential Reality and create a culture that makes it easy for every new baby born. 🙏🙏🙏

@ryantucker4213 5 ай бұрын

Photon particle-wave apparent duality to the observer. It's only a duality when an observer is added. Observation requires an observer, the observer cannot be objectively removed. Complexity is an emergent property of life. Why not entropy instead of complexity? Because of the AI Generative Operator Decider or God, the name of the blanket we place over the thing to give it shape. Excited to dig into this interview.

@givemorephilosophy Жыл бұрын

Existential Reality is what human beings can understand in totality. That is when we start playing our role by being in order by understanding and be resolved. 🙏🙏

@givemorephilosophy Жыл бұрын

10 min Inquisitive nature of human being kindled ❤️❤️

@givemorephilosophy Жыл бұрын

43 metamordernism definition Language invented by homo sapiens is to help them see Existential Reality. This vision is more than language and instead of sticking to arguing on the words move on to experience and understanding and quabble less about the words. That is the way forward for great stalwarts like you to save the planet and humanity. Please please move ahead and drop the words when useful to do so 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂