Brendan Graham Dempsey » The Void, Nihilism, Christ, Diamond Approach, Metamodernism, Metaphysics, Post-Metaphysical Spirituality, Emergentism, Complexity
0:00 Brendan Graham Dempsey and Marshall Æon
1:34 Brendan’s history with Christianity (from evangelism to apostasy)
4:30 Dandyism, Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche, The Odyssey, Kierkegard
6:36 Denys Turner at Yale Divinity School, Catholic mysticism, Plotinus
10:26 What is Metamodernism?
14:40 Metamodern metaphysics?
16:23 Jean-Luc Marion - God Without Being, Nietzsche, Nihilism
19:37 What is Metamodern spirituality?
20:51 Post-Metaphysical Spirituality (Bruce Alderman, Layman Pascal, Ken Wilber)
21:20 Subtle energy meditation • Maximal vs Minimal metaphysics
22:53 The value and dark side of meditation
23:24 Adyashanti: Meditation can be both undervalued and overvalued
26:41 Paul Ricoeur’s Second Naïveté
29:00 What is The Void?
30:49 Buddhism’s emphasis on Emptiness (Sunyata)
33:30 The Void as the fundamental nature of existence
33:44 Nietzsche’s critiques of Christianity
35:30 Fullness and Emptiness are not mutually exclusive
37:00 Journey of Ascent vs Descent
38:16 Christianity as a critique on Eastern spirituality
38:54 Buddhism as a critique on other Indian schools
39:34 Christ’s resurrection representing the redemption of the world (in contrast to Maya, the dream state)
41:36 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Christogenesis, the Omega Point
42:58 Nagarjuna
43:46 Becoming the Void
44:12 Complexity, Emergence
44:23 Brendan’s Book “Emergentism”
46:52 The value of Cessation of consciousness
49:30 Schopenhauer and Silenus
50:52 Many kinds of emptiness
51:48 Spiritual ideals vs possibilities • Is spirituality goal-oriented?
52:50 Subject/object non-duality • Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, Shankara
55:45 Many kinds of non-duality
56:27 Moving towards a spiritual ideal vs becoming an instrument for reality to reveal its possibilities
1:01:02 What’s driving the desire to experience a mystical state? Fear of the Void?
1:06:38 Does fullness negate emptiness?
1:06:55 Christianity’s emphasis on the value of the individual consciousness or soul versus the East
1:08:11 The individualized logos of the soul
1:10:10 Defining fundamentalism
1:15:00 Is Brendan a Fullness fundamentalist?
1:19:35 A. H. Almaas and The Diamond Approach
1:20:00 Inquiry: the central practice of the Diamond Approach
1:21:43 Four turnings of the teaching of the Diamond Approach
1:21:50 Non-duality in the DA: the five boundless dimensions
1:23:23 Having a predilection or preference for particular mystical experiences
1:28:24 First turning of the Diamond Approach teaching: the individual consciousness, soul, Essential identity
1:33:32 Formation of the ego/personality, metabolization of ego structures, The Pearl Beyond Price (personal Essence)
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