Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He earned his bachelors in religious studies from the University of Vermont and his masters in religion and the arts from Yale University. He is the host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast where he interviews leading thinkers in the metamodernism, integral, synthesist, and Game B spaces about the topics of meaning-making and spirituality in today's world. He is also the author of a series of books including the most recent “Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern world”. In this episode, we speak about the meaning crisis, the problem with spiritual but not religious, four levels of complexity, evolving our concept of God, and transcending nihilistic spirituality.
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[Show notes]
0:00 - Introduction
1:04 - Brendan’s journey with religion
5:20 - What is the meaning crisis?
10:37 - Modern scientific reductionism VS Traditional fundamentalism
20:52 - The problem with spiritual but not religious
24:53 - What is Emergentism?
31:49 - Four levels of complexity
41:20 - What level of complexity will emerge after culture?
47:28 - Is Emergentism antithetical to Idealism?
53:27 - Evolving our concept of God
1:03:52 - Transcending nihilistic spirituality
1:16:52 - Emergentism’s ecology of spiritual practices
1:30:30 - Pushing back on vegetarianism
1:35:05 - The eye symbol in spirituality
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