If key to the modern Western worldview was the discovery of deep space, deep time, deep process, and deep consciousness, and a corresponding conception of no limits, what follows after that worldview’s demise in 1945 with WWII undoing European power? Does a new worldview and mythology emerge? (No, not exactly, but the old one unravels, and is unravelling…) Acknowledging that myth can mean everything from an impossible story proved false to a profound articulation of our existential belonging, our discussion ranges across a diversity of understandings of myth within our globalizing moment.
8. Myth and Worldview
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11. Are we in a Second Axial Age?
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We continue our discussion of the Axial Age begun in the previous episode, in terms of how our current...
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10. The Axial Age: 2500 Years Ago
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This episode introduces our listeners to “the Axial Age”, the time period of the middle first millennium BC. The...
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14. The Ego and its Discontents
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The identification of the ego with power structures greater than itself, raises a whole host of questions around ego...
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4. State of Emergency: World War II as Precedent for Today
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In this episode we look at what we’re calling “expansionism”, how the natural tendency of a species to expand...
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13. Power in History
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Power manifests in a regularly recurring historical pattern: when there is a successful critique of the dominant power and...
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9. Globalization: One Globe, Many Worlds
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Globalization means that economically, industrially, technologically, all humans have become interconnected. In this episode we argue the other side...
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12. Opposing Scale: Spiritual Practices and Small Communities
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In this episode, our deep dive into the Axial Age meets the podcast theme of the importance of scale....
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1. Thinking the Present Moment: The World as a Convergence of Crises
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In this first episode of the Afterthought series we introduce some of the global crises that our world is...