Listened to this the other day on Jonathon’s podcast. Very, very interesting talk. I enjoyed it so much - lots to ponder, so will listen again. Made me wonder if you’ve ever read Technopoly by Neil Postman. He has some great thoughts on the proper role of technology / proper human-technology hierarchy. Should always be a tool serving humans; not humans serving the technology.
Jonathan Pageau has had an enormous impact on me, far greater than I could ever have anticipated at my stage of life. Not just in how I see the world, but also in how I experience God, because of how he has enabled me to read the Bible. (And the world.)
His hermeneutic doesn't displace what I have known, but rather adds color to monochrome, or a third dimension to flat pictures.
Jonathan has said that he and his semi-reclusive brother Matthieu share the same brain. Matthieu has written a mend-bending book called "The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis."
He doesn't make reference to the four Aristotelian causes explicitly, but it's the same paradigm. The book is a magisterial effort to recapture what we lost when we stopped looking for final and formal causes.
The chapters are all 2-3 pages long. There's not a sentence in it that is in difficult English. But I've read it five times now in order to make the shift in paradigm.
It seems to me that the principal formative influence of everyone's identity and the now collective psychosis is TV. In a very real sense it patterns and controls almost every aspect of ones brain and nervous system.
Listened to this the other day on Jonathon’s podcast. Very, very interesting talk. I enjoyed it so much - lots to ponder, so will listen again. Made me wonder if you’ve ever read Technopoly by Neil Postman. He has some great thoughts on the proper role of technology / proper human-technology hierarchy. Should always be a tool serving humans; not humans serving the technology.
Watching this I felt like I’d lassoed a comet and was just struggling to hang on. So many marvels.
Jonathan Pageau has had an enormous impact on me, far greater than I could ever have anticipated at my stage of life. Not just in how I see the world, but also in how I experience God, because of how he has enabled me to read the Bible. (And the world.)
His hermeneutic doesn't displace what I have known, but rather adds color to monochrome, or a third dimension to flat pictures.
Jonathan has said that he and his semi-reclusive brother Matthieu share the same brain. Matthieu has written a mend-bending book called "The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis."
He doesn't make reference to the four Aristotelian causes explicitly, but it's the same paradigm. The book is a magisterial effort to recapture what we lost when we stopped looking for final and formal causes.
The chapters are all 2-3 pages long. There's not a sentence in it that is in difficult English. But I've read it five times now in order to make the shift in paradigm.
With reference to Mary’s comment about reclaiming the soul narrative here’s an essay she might like about Keats view of life as a ‘vale of soul making’ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/25/the-vale-of-soul-making/
Brilliant discussion !
It seems to me that the principal formative influence of everyone's identity and the now collective psychosis is TV. In a very real sense it patterns and controls almost every aspect of ones brain and nervous system.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-comes-to-life
At any given moment how many billions of human beings are watching and thus being brain-washed by TV.
Re the collective Wetiko Psychosis check out this reference:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/undreaming-wetiko-introduction
The Wetiko word was used by Jack Forbes in his book Columbus & Other Cannibals.
It could be said that the Orange Oaf is the leading edge vector of this collective psychosis!
Very interesting I'll look forward to reading that article properly, although now I guess it's it's TV-like influence, rather than TV.
Watching it now.
Important discussion. Thank you both.
(Do you have an easy way to also present a transcript for these videos?)
If you have an iPhone, try the Symbolic World Apple Podcast feed.
Perfecto - thx!