Why Is The Idea of God So Important? | Jonathan Pageau | Align Podcast: Revisited

[@machinotaur]

As someone who is now Orthodox Christian and has done psychedelics in the past, I can say for sure that it is an exposure to unearned wisdom. It's much like being a radio that has its amperage jacked and exposed to all frequencies at once: you'll get it alright, but to what end? Blessedly I had a stronger constitution than many of my friends and I was able to carry on, but many of them burnt out. Lord have mercy, do hallucinogens at your own peril.

[@Mr.Misfit-101]

Couldn’t agree more.

[@JohnnyMUTube]

Same experience here - joining the Orthodox church is helping heal from the exposure to psychedelics, but it takes time. This is also the criticism I have of my protestant background/theology - that healing is a button on the God vending machine. I pray people heed the warnings!

[@kristenswensen6451]

Precisely. "Unearned." Grabbing fruit for yourself. I've always called it cheating, but your term has more clarity and respect...Actually describes as it identifies.

[@3within1]

I’m undecided on psychedelics. It brought me back from deep depression, from broken to on the mend. I also did psychedelics in a strong container. I only did it by myself a couple of times. My intention was always to heal. So I’m wonder if there is room for psychedelics within an Orthodox framework.

[@IanBelcher]

I wouldn't have considered the Orthodox Church if it wasn't for my experience with psychedelics; I was highly biased against The Bible and Christianity for much of my life but they definitely helped me to break free of the negative cultural associations with the faith that I had accumulated in my life. Now that I'm reading the Bible with an open mind I'm able to see a depth I never could have anticipated before.

[@pandjbruno]

So glad Jonathan has these conversations with curious people ❤

[@louise7347]

Brilliant conversation, guys. JP has the right ideas!

[@Notthecopy]

I think this was a timely conversation. I agree, it's a conversation that would be worthwhile to continue...love to hear where it would go.

[@maryduffy2086]

Such a great podcast. The value of one man, woman and family. Giving to a higher good and the consequences of not abiding to those values so valuable, thank you for sharing.

[@random_person6041]

Jonathan💚

[@AmyMaris]

‘Addiction is a form of worship’. Jonathon never fails to deliver.

[@SneakySteevy]

Do you agree?

[@andyd568]

Aaron, bro, you need to adjust your camera color filters. Great conversation !

[@ibelieve3111]

Thanks

[@oliverjamito9902]

Students shared "i" AM will say, is like a doctor with a patient. Yet the patient ending up HEALING THE DOCTOR!

[@suzettedarrow8739]

Maybe, but it’ll alleviate a lot of human suffering in the meantime. So, why not give it a shot?

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

The ego has no difficulty with _the idea_ of God. But the _experience_ of God is fiercely defended against. That paraphrased statement comes from A Course in Miracles. This holy text, of our own era, has indeed a very famous Author. Seek _and find,_ says the Holy Spirit. Seek, but do not find, says the ego.

[@oliverjamito9902]

You come here do ye exist? Lord without thy shared "i" AM YOU!

[@10.6.12.]

Why do all these JP interviews attract a cheering section and not critical discourse?

[@oliverjamito9902]

How can ye see higher without from WHO stood up from HIS SEAT and took the lowest seat LASTS among my shared "i" AM?;

[@oliverjamito9902]

Little new minds come here and seat with Me. Now....tell Me!

[@leighdunne3859]

The comment about the Eucharist, eating the literal body of Jesus is "Christian" - this is a catholic idea but is not shared by all Christians.

[@oliverjamito9902]

Some will say what is Me?

[@Gil3490]

God does not need money nor intermediaries.

[@oliverjamito9902]

Is not the unborn is the problem but the society! Many who am I?

[@elrud5964]

Man that guy on the left needs to try a bit less

[@oliverjamito9902]

What is UNSEEN? Yet, ye Flesh and Yet moving?

[@IvanGonzalez-kf4lp]

That jonathon fella talks a lot of wholesale nonsense.

[@maggen_me7790]

If you have 12 women and one man you will have a village in 3 years🙃

[@ALavin-en1kr]

You are with the Darwinians perspective. The reality is that we are moving away from the last dark age when the masculine was up front and protective. Movement to a higher age always involves the feminine which has a different influence. Both are necessary and consciousness, mind, and nature use both when appropriate, necessary and timely. We humans adjust and play our roles.

[@AlignPodcast]

Jonathan Pageau brings such an interesting perspective to a lot of the conversations we have throughout this episode 💭 I hope they bring clarity to your own thoughts, and also bring you new ideas that you hadn't previously considered. Life's about building the best understanding and bringing graciousness to your experience. You can't do that without understanding a wide range of perspectives 🧠 Let me know below your thoughts, have a great day 😄

[@michaelmyers9080]

Going too deep into "multiple perspectives" delivers a dilettante at some point. Treating the spiritual life as a smorgasbord leads to a corresponding indigestion.

[@tleevz1]

It is going to be fascinating how many physical ailments will fade away as we learn more about consciousness and build a better fundamental framework for understanding reality.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

This discussion is the most intelligence and the most common sense I have heard in a long time. We need more of this.

[@11kravitzn]

You need to find some smarter people to listen to, dude. Maybe pick up a book by Nietzsche

[@ALavin-en1kr]

@@11kravitzn You are wrong. The problem today is what is called by philosophers ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ what is it? In Eastern religion and philosophy going back to the higher ages God and Consciousness were the same. God is Consciousness. Humans share in this consciousness.

[@11kravitzn]

@@ALavin-en1kr I don't think consciousness can get a virgin pregnant or raise the dead lol

[@ALavin-en1kr]

@@11kravitzn If you are talking about your consciousness I would agree with you.

[@11kravitzn]

@@ALavin-en1kr You probably think humans are metaphysically special over and above all other life forms

[@ALavin-en1kr]

The purpose of life is: To know, love, and serve God, who is both transcendent and immanent, all there is, and Who we can be One with. As Christ said: Ye are gods, and that is so. The idiocy of the biological perspective of mid-nineteenth century Darwinism has confused many. There are cells, electricities, electromagnetism and magnetism, consciousness, mind, and individualized souls or sparks of Cosmic Consciousness. We are all of that, so enough of reductionism. At the cusp of a quantum age, it is time we realize we are the microcosm of the macrocosm.

[@10.6.12.]

Why do all these JP interviews attract a cheering section and not critical discourse?

[@Steblu74]

Firstly, it's not actually science. It is "science falsely so-called". The "science" is that Christ rose from the dead on the third day and is returning to judge the world. That's the science..

[@lkae4]

Bro, the gym tank is kinda disrespectful to the audience and your guests.

[@jacob6088]

It’s part of his brand/image

[@lkae4]

@@jacob6088 Narcissistic potato brand? Coming through very clearly. You respect this guy?

[@jacob6088]

@@lkae4 ha

[@lkae4]

@@jacob6088 I'm guessing he's trying to pull an Andrew Tate. SMH. For those guys who are buying this, stop. It's not real. This is not how real men look and behave.

[@gff.yu.]

I wish youtube would set some clothing standards for its content creators smdh

[@oliverjamito9902]

Bring all will bring forth BLAME UNTO US! IN FRONT OF THE SON OF MAN!

[@oliverjamito9902]

Is like my Meeks Neighbors come here in front and remind! Without Thy shared Feet OLIVER JAMITO BORN DECEMBER 29 1976 SIGNITURE! The NEW DAY! The WORD the "i" AM!

[@oliverjamito9902]

What is self centered? A little child "i" longing to LEARN from all the old minds upon all HIS FOOTSTOOL

[@jaybrianingle3384]

top notch my man!

[@AlignPodcast]

Thank you bro, glad you enjoyed it!

[@ew8311]

The world was in a matriarchy? Sure dude.

[@oliverjamito9902]

How can ye imagine? If none exist in front?

[@RayG817]

So bleeping bogus

[@symbolicmeta1942]

40:12 doesn’t this definition of a cult mean the section mean that Christianity is a cult if we look at where Jesus calls us to hate our parents and abandon everything to follow him? (Catholic, so I am not saying this is the case, but this definition doesn’t really seem to be ideal)

[@drydizzle2954]

Christianity is a cult. Cult is an often incorrectly applied term that is used as a buzzword to imply a small group of contrarians with high in group preference, typically with elevated negative ethnocentrism who cut themselves off from the rest of the world with some sort of weird sexual spin involved. That' is simply not accurate though. Any system of belief that holds to beliefs and practices in someway would be considered cultic.

[@flamingdragon3861]

No, the meaning there is that God must be highest in our lives, if you put your wife above God then your wife is now your Idol. It fits his point of if you arrange your life in the proper arrangement the rest will actually become harmonious and improved. Idolize anything but god and you will fall Great question

[@steveclark8538]

Christianity indeed has all the building blocks of a cult there in the texts themselves. Thats why I’ve seen so many Christian Cults just in my lifetime. See: Concise Overview of the Critique of Jesus of Nazareth.

[@steveclark8538]

@@flamingdragon3861 The word used is hate, miseo, not love less. It’s the same Greek word later in luke about following two masters. The word means hate.

[@oliverjamito9902]

Nor Me can even exist in front of WHO? Without the shared "i" AM Me! Better yet, some will say, what is YOU? CREATION WILL SAY, WITHOUT HIS SHARED "i" Am . TIME GIVEN from.....unto all WHO am I?

[@marcomclaurin6713]

Science will prove Scripture Sonoluminescence:"Let there be light" I'll demonstrate transmutation by electrical process (Lorentz Force in a magnetic field) of genetically superior creatures (Seraphim) My icon is a seraph kneeling and my channel is dedicated to giving examples of this

[@ChucksExotics]

Jonathan's idea that we are too rational these days is bizarre. The opposite is true, today we are incredibly religious and superstitious and driven by emotion. Tell me exactly what about the modern left strikes you as rational? Jonathan talks about all the good things that our society lacks as if only mystery and superstition can provide them. Like "why should we love our own ethnic group?" It must be some unfathomable mysterious thing according to Jonathan. I agree with a lot of the problems he points out. But his idea that it's caused by focusing on rationality is ridiculous to me.

[@suppression2142]

He addresses this in this very conversation. He doesn't think the modern world is all rational it's furries and witches my friend and hyper rationality.

[@anthonybrett]

@@suppression2142 "Jonathan's idea that we are too rational these days is bizarre" I think you may be misinterpreting him. An atheistic claim is that if we rid the West of spirituality (God) then that will usher in the modern day utopia. The problem is, the reverse has occurred. (As predicted by Nietzsche.) As science has relegated God to the dumpster bin, the West has become incredibly nihilistic - no meaning to life. Suicide rates per capita are higher now than at any point in human history. "I agree with a lot of the problems he points out. But his idea that it's caused by focusing on rationality is ridiculous to me." He's not saying that the problems are caused by focusing on the enlightenment, he's saying that the problems are occurring because we've neglected the need for a higher purpose that science cannot provide. Science is a brilliant tool, but it needs to be wielded by faith. Science cannot wield itself.

[@qwertyuiopqwerqwererty]

32:54 he addresses this a little bit. The far left is absolutely an evolution of the "counterenlightenment"- Jonathan elsewhere has said he sees that movement as a component of the enlightenment itself. I think he might say that the elevation of reason above all else does not delete human irrationality, so it finds ways to manifest itself, or something like that.

[@suppression2142]

@qwertyuiopqwerqwererty There is always a remainder that cannot be accounted for within a system. That must be acknowledged at the "edge".

[@anthonybrett]

@@suppression2142 Exactly. No one pattern can fit everything.

[@experiencemystique4982]

Is not a little bit late to formuler this kind of question? Some things are science guided, others scienceshish, lately more the second than the first. But as children of à "violent social household" you have thé trauma of the beaten wife vis-a-vis the system...

[@oliverjamito9902]

Footstool will say, remember all thy shared clay FEET MIXED WITH IRON resting upon all dry grounds. "GROUNDED"!

[@deborahknox2433]

Are you familiar with Integral Theory and Spiral Dynamics? It seems like you are touching on some of this in your Theories of Conscioysness section.

[@oliverjamito9902]

Little NEW MINDS WILL SAY, UNTO ALL HIS SOCIETY! RESTING UPON HIS FOOTSTOOL!

[@oliverjamito9902]

Why GROUNDED? Students shared "i" AM keep watch!

[@oliverjamito9902]

Students will say unto Whom BELONGS?

[@oliverjamito9902]

Students shared "i" AM will say HE SPEAKS IN PARABLES!

[@oliverjamito9902]

Is like why there's something rather than nothing?

[@williambranch4283]

It does ... in science, we are meat popsicles - 5th Element.

[@77agape]

good chat, conversation.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

We should not mess with the wonderful faculties that God has given us. We are the microcosm of the macrocosm. Great Saints have always realized this. When consciousness (the hard problem for philosophy) is understood all will change. Consciousness is God, humans and all creation share in God’s consciousness which is all that is.

[@jacobgingerhoffman7816]

What do you mean by the consciousness is God? Is that like we are all " gods" or is there a distinction between the creature and the Creator?

[@ALavin-en1kr]

​@@jacobgingerhoffman7816 Jesus said to his followers ‘Ye Are gods” so based on that I believe it is the case that we are. We are sparks of the Divine consciousness, as souls or sparks of the divine. We share in consciousness or God. As we learned we are temples of the Holy Spirit. We being in God and God being is us.

[@Gil3490]

So in reality we are in heaven and also hell.

[@Piperdreams]

As we’re are “made in God’s image” it implies we’re God- like a primordial spirit /aspect of God consciousness… we’re each , in my experience and research, are willing participants in gathering all our experiences over various “life times” contributing as part of the “one consciousness”

[@ALavin-en1kr]

@@jacobgingerhoffman7816 Christ said to his followers: Ye are gods. That may mean we share in God’s consciousness.

[@jamescareyyatesIII]

Professional pearl-clutchers...

[@MoeGar-e6e]

The Pearl of great price ....😮

[@jdnlaw1974]

Imaginary Friend I pray to him each day, hears my cries at night, replies to me in my own voice, it’s gonna be alright, communicates with me, through faith’s telepathy, answers prayers because he cares, for all his thoughts are mine, Chorus here with me, ‘til the end, my own, imaginary friend, can’t see him but he’s there, in my heart and mind, silent to my earthly ears, blind before my eyes, such a complicated thing, tries to ease our suffering, helping us come up with ways we might, escape reality, Chorus by my side, I depend on my, imaginary friend, likely that you have one too, somewhere there inside of you, hallelujah, shout amen to our, imaginary friend, delusional but beautiful, even though it’s all pretend, still I need, my imaginary friend… JN

[@steveclark8538]

The word God means different things to different societies, different individuals, and it’s been that way since recorded history. Also see: Concise Overview of the Critique of Jesus of Nazareth - DCS

[@alansonneman9098]

I have no idea why this man is considered intelligent or creative. Oh, that's it, he's friends of Jordon Peterson.