Rerooting Yeshua as a Magician Storyteller, with Bayo Akomolafe (Extended)

Snippets from the final session of our course Rewilding Mythology (extended cut released as an end-of-the-year gift!). Find out more about the course at rewilding-mythology.com.
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Uprooted from the Galilean ecology from which he drew his nature metaphors and translated into the language of his oppressors, the teachings of Jesus have easily lapsed into dogma. How does a storytelling magician get coopted by imperialism and patriarchy? Let us replant Jesus in his original ecological and social context, and his mythic vegetal god mycelium, to recover the environmentally and socially radical nature of his teachings.
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About Bayo Akomolafe: Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual (a concept imagined together with and inspired by the shamanic priesthood of the Yoruba healer-trickster)- whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope.

[@TFSXForesight]

Two of my favs in one delicious conversation!

[@Nicola56]

Very refreshing conversation thank you. 🥰

[@fredfarmer5952]

I'm a Boomer who ran into a huge, invisible wall 1n 1980 where God became MORE than Greed and Divide and Conquer in forms racism and sexism (both ways). I love to witness younger scholars who've gone past where we were stopped. Y'all are awesome!

[@colski3333]

Kingdom is ABSOLUTELY here. Not outside first. This is one message that everyone tries to avoid. He said; Seek ye first!!!! When? First. This means above all else. About all else till it’s found. If not,.. don’t give up. Ask again and again till it comes. It’s in your. The only reason you don’t feel it have it or live it is because you don’t give it. You can’t have it only for yourself. That’s the key to the Kingdom. Rest is just a delaying maneuver to this finding the kingdom now. When? You might offer me an attack to what I am say (crucifixion all over again) but give me your blessing and see what happens to you. Kingdom is within you. My brother said it and so do I. Simply don’t give up and seek it AND find it. Seeking is not enough. And especially don’t expect it after you die but die to all you beliefs how you can’t have it now and see what he means. Have fun

[@barblc3202]

Love it - thanks so much for making my brain explode a little more - it helps my breaking free of the old paradigm

[@mnpc]

Amazing

[@neilavee]

Truth🙏🏼🌊

[@TheDionysianFields]

Rapture or rupture? -- that is the question. I feel that the two of you are breaking new ground at a very auspicious moment in human history. You're fusing together things like Taoism and postmodernism, while relegating both Hegel and Nietzsche. It's brilliant. Just don't deny (or eschew) ambition itself as some euro-centric concept. It's okay to be intent on building a better world. A mycelial, syncretic, peri-feral world. I, myself, still believe in distinctions (categories, even)...and that problems are made to be solved. But I would agree that cleanliness is oh so far from godliness. Cheers.

[@TheWhyisthatso]

Try this "transcendence" ........ "God is Spirit..." ( John 4:24 ) Our "spirit" is what we call our "mind" ( thought and consciousness ) "GOD" is "MIND" ( Thought and Consciousness ) "Father" = MIND ( Ineffable, Incomprehensible, Pure and Perfect, Divine Mind ) "Mother" = THOUGHT ( Holy Spirit, Mother of ALL Life ) "Son" (Child) = CONSCIOUSNESS ( The Conception of the Union of Mind and Thought, The "Word" (Logos) = "Revealed Thought" of the Father/Mother, The Creator of ALL "Concepts" of Life and Being ) These Three ( The TRUE Holy Trinity ) are ONE "Spirit" (MIND) = "God"

[@jaysaw2321]

Who's that ralph's brother. Lol.😲😅

[@daoistdansah54]

yep....we All look alike