Can Religion Meet Today's Challenges? Daniel Schmachtenberger, Iain McGilchrist & John Vervaeke

This clip is excerpted from a longer conversation between Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke and Daniel Schmachtenberger, recorded at Merton College, Oxford, in September 2023. With no planned objective or agenda, the discussion sought to outline the cognitive and spiritual components of the metacrisis. The metacrisis is the total ecosystem of all global crises and the common underlying dynamics that generate catastrophic and existential risks.
The conversation can be watched in its entirety here: • The Psychological Driv...
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[@DreamingOfABetterDay]

I think all religions have many things in common, like faith, hope and love. I think the problem is that hope is always dashed, faith is always challenged and love is always forgotton in these situations. That is the goal of power without connection to any grounding force, like faith, hope and love. We get lost in our ideas of what faith, hope and love Are instead of allowing their process to flow through us to come to Fruition. You must respect the process or you cannot get anywhere. Just stuck in time. I feel as if I am miss speaking in a sense and that body is the grounding force between power and love.

[@TimCCambridge]

👍👍Always aiming at the target, the archer becomes locked into the role. This tension has been placed upon us, always seeking targets is the root of our existential conflict. Nature is satisfied with being a causeless cause, IMO.

[@sirgooogen]

I believe I feel Dr Iain has discovered something so profound that he'll be swarmed by those who want to censor his work

[@rudolfboukal1538]

eye of a needle - death of a seed. Two thoughts placed here as a note for later comment .... for now, I have to say that I fully and fundamentally disagree with the proposed solutions, but even more so ... by its simple consideration.

[@TheWorldTeacher]

I don’t really care what any particular person BELIEVES. You may believe that there is an old man with a white beard perched in the clouds, that Ultimate Reality is a young blackish-blue Indian guy, that the universe is eternal, that Mother Mary was a certifiable virgin, or that gross physical matter is the foundation of existence. The ONLY thing that really matters is your meta-ethics, not your meta-physics. Do you consider any form of non-monarchical governance (such as democracy or socialism) to be beneficial? Do you unnecessarily destroy the lives of poor, innocent animals and gorge on their bloody carcasses? Do you believe homosexuality and transvestism are moral? Do you consider feminist ideology to be righteous? If so, then you are objectively immoral and your so-called “enlightened/awakened” state is immaterial, since it does not benefit society in any way.

[@timmy-wj2hc]

No.😂