Myth Salon with Rami Shapiro: Perennial Wisdom & Rascal Theology

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Wonderful conversation! Thank you.

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45:29 58:00 it can go too far and let "that level" take over. We don't want that "otherness" dissolve because we have to also keep boundaries. That is how our world created, between the opposites. That otherness should not dissolve because there IS pathology too. We do want to separate from it. "The meek shall inherit the earth" “those who have swords and know how to use them but keep them sheathed”? For me: Buddhism is there to understand the basics building box, but life is built on it. Life is the house what is created on those building box. The house is all that beauty with it's windows, doors and walls. With it's all different functions and it's diverse nature to be enjoyed and to be brought to existence. Since Buddhism, there are layers of understanding have been discovered. The levels are incorporated, and we build a new level on top. Integration and creation of a new level. (Ken Wilber, integral theory) 1:29:15 The natural world IS separation. There is a bottom: extinction. Even without language. Just like all the animal kingdom exist without language and they are also don't stop and think it is all love. I am not Buddhist. In Buddha's time, most people had absolutely no chance to individualization. They were born into harsh lives, with one goal: survival. Most had no chance to choose their own path. They had multiple children, poverty, sickness and hard work. Humanity has a chance to empower the individual to become so much more, and without pathology, serving their own community empowering each other. At Buddha's time: it didn't exist. How we do live into the new? We are only starting to figure it out. We are somewhere in a new territory. We have no answer, we are growing into the answers. There is no one answer. There are tryings, failings, let it go of the wrongs, keeping what works and move forward into a new reality. Some myth says it will take 600 years until we creat the new world. But it is the journey, not the destination. Reality: there is also evil. Let's deal with it. Don't naively let it rule the world. There is no light without darkness. 1:54:00 (please don't get confused about Mike Pence than) C.G. Jung: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Making the darkness CONSCIOUS, not light. There are levels of darkness. Evil is a darkness that has not been dealt with. Evil is staying in darkness and refusing to acknowledge it. To prevail Evil: every one of us has to pick up their own cross, die on it and resurrect. Nobody is coming to save us, we are the ones we have been waiting for