Embracing the Void | Part 2

[@nightoftheworld]

1:00:55 Rick Roderick had a great line in his Nietzsche lectures that has stuck with me here-namely that _”it’s important to believe some things passionately, but it’s also important to have the wisdom to know that you could be dead wrong.”_ I think belief is crucial in life, to have moral fiber, to be a true human-to lack the ability to step back from that and to reassess my position when the new comes along is where I fall into danger.

[@benjammin4840]

Awesome interviews. Thank you!

[@taratasarar]

Thanks for this. Will order the book at once!

[@luismartin1367]

Great work from Rollins and Boothby!

[@loganjonescoaching]

Thank you, Peter and Thank You, Richard! #profound #vital #crucial

[@HeathcliffeMcHarris]

Peter almost said: The 'ocean' of the self-divided god

[@paulilott2478]

Interesting he mentions a Zen practice. Zen kensho insight is that all is one - self is an illusion and the real you is the conciousness n which everything appears and is itself made of conciousness. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form etc. Not sure if there is any room is this perspective that there is any lack or negativity in pure consciousness. In Lacanian theory the self may be an object in consciousness but the psychological structure is one of insatiable desire from a fundamental lack/void. These approaches appear different.

[@HeathcliffeMcHarris]

Just this morning friends of mine wanted to discuss why the term 'New Age' is used derisively

[@loganjonescoaching]

What is the name of the author that both you Peter and Richard are referring to?

[@MrHawkMan777]

Jacques Lacan I imagine

[@MrHawkMan777]

I would recommend reading the eastern church fathers if you haven't already. People like Maximus the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa, Saint Symeon the new theologian, and many more. As they really do stress this need to serve the other and the idea of kenosis comes from them. Meister Eckhart was one of the few Western mystics who talked about kenosis but the eastern fathers stressed it constantly. Also in the practice of Hesychasm, the eastern church's practice of meditation based in existence in silence. I really think you would find a lot of great ideas and concepts from them. I wouldn't say they are as radical as you guys as they still stressed the common Christian tropes of heaven, hell, the resurrection of the dead and the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross but if you want to find a Christian tradition most similar, theologically to yours its Eastern Orthodoxy, especially the Greek fathers from Gregory of Nyssa up until Gregory of Palamas.