Emergentism : The Religion That's Not a Religion

Emergentism : The Religion That's Not a Religion

We discuss metamodernism and author Brendan Graham Dempsey's Emergentism, a religion of complexity. Brendan's 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 lives in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, where he runs the holistic retreat center Sky Meadow. 

❶ Brendan's Origin Story

0:00 Highlights

6:56 Calls to Adventures (Raised in Vermont, Evangelical Christian)

8:35 Postmodern cultural influence & Nietzsche at 10 years old

13:45 Religious upbringing, apologetics colliding with critical exploration

20:35 Religious studies & classics in college

22:00 Turning point: Historical Jesus studies (an apocalyptic prophet) 

25:10 Faustian, nihilistic plunge

❷ Metamodernism

28:00 Brendan's aesthetic epoch (Acolyte in Cult of Beauty)

36:00 What is metamodernism?

42:15 Carlos is a metamodern newb, halp! (+opponent processing)

45:20 Postmodernity all critique, Modernity all utopian naive idealism, Metamodernism holds in check

48:00 Postmodernism is to Seinfeld as Metamodernism is to...

52:25 Outlining Brendan's 6 books in his Metamodern Spirituality series

❸ Emergentism

1:02:45 Carlos' book review

1:03:50 What is emergence? 

1:07:25 Reductionism can lead to nihilism... all is "just xyz"

1:09:25 Bobby Azarian's The Romance of Reality (non-equilibrium thermodynamics)

1:22:05 Proto-Darwinian dissipatitive adaptation (Jeremy England)

1:30:25 The Edge of Chaos lost its juice?

1:32:55 What is Emergentism? Religion of complexity...

1:40:35 Defining Emergentism as a grand narrative of reality...

1:43:00 Goals for The Truth channel

1:45:05 What about secular people who claim they don't have a spiritual need?

1:51:30 How do you make Emergentism accessible to everyone? (Brendan goes to bed every night thinking of this!)

2:00:25 What does an Emergentist lifestyle look like?

2:08:00 How does Brendan live by Emergentism?

2:13:55 On vegetarianism

2:16:55 Omega by Julian, a mythopoetic complexity narrative

2:22:00 If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what'd it be?

🚩Links to Brendan 🚩

Website: https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/

Channel:   

 / @brendangrahamdem...  

Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World https://www.amazon.com/Emergentism-Re...

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I am The Interface

Emergence is a Simple Idea -- 

The Universe is The Way it is, 

because it Grew That Way.

CHAKOTAY: 

It looks like the bio-mass dissolved 

right through The Borg hull. 

TUVOK: 

This Borg is attempting to assimilate it. 

KIM: 

Doesn't look like he's having much luck. 

CHAKOTAY: 

There's a chamber beyond this opening. 

Forty meters wide, high concentrations of antimatter particles. 

It looks like a warp propulsion system of some kind. 

KIM: 

It's A Ship? 

TUVOK: 

Starfleet has encountered species 

that use organic-based vessels. 

The Breen, for example. 

CHAKOTAY: 

There doesn't seem to be anybody on board. 

Chakotay to Voyager. 

JANEWAY [OC]: 

Go ahead, Commander. 

CHAKOTAY: 

Captain, we've found an entrance to the biomass. 

We think it may be a ship of some kind. 

Permission to go inside. 

JANEWAY [OC]: 

Granted. 

CHAKOTAY: 

Harry, that's a Borg distribution node. 

See if you can download their tactical database. 

It might contain a record of What Happened here. 

KIM: 

Aye, sir. 

CHAKOTAY: 

Tuvok.

[Alien Bioship]

(Lots of curves in stark contrast to The Borg angles.)

CHAKOTAY: 

They seem to be organic conduits. 

They're carrying electrodynamic fluid. 

TUVOK: 

Maybe an energy source. 

CHAKOTAY: 

Maybe. This looks like a binary matrix, 

but it's laced with neuropeptides. 

Could be their version of a computer core. 

Kim hears some clanging sounds 

and goes to investigate, 

then returns to his work.

TUVOK: 

This damage was caused by a Borg disrupter beam. 

The Wall appears to be regenerating itself. 

Commander! 

Tuvok discovers a Borg being 

absorbed by The Wall.

[TARDIS]

(The Doctor is on his knees.) 

Chinny : 

I'm shutting down. 

I need An Interface. 

Voice interface. 

Come on, emergency. 

HOLO-DOCTOR MK-III: 

Voice interface enabled. 

Chinny : 

Oh no, no, no, no, no. 

Give me someone I like. 

(Holo-Rose Tyler.)

Chinny : 

Oh, Thanks. Give me Guilt. 

(Holo-Martha Jones.) 

Chinny: 

Also, Guilt. 

(Holo-Donna Noble.) 

Chinny : 

More Guilt. Argh. 

Come on, there must be someone left 

in The Universe I haven't screwed up yet. 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) : 

Voice interface enabled. 

Chinny : 

Oh. Oh, Amelia Pond...

Before I got it all wrong. 

My sweet little Amelia. 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) : 

I am not Amelia Pond. 

I am a voice interface. 

Chinny : 

Hey, let's run away 

and have adventures. 

Come along, Pond. 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) 

I am not Amelia Pond. 

I am a voice interface. 

Chinny : 

You are so Scottish. 

How am I doing? 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) : 

Your System has been contaminated by The Poison of The Judas Tree. 

You will be dead in 

thirty two minutes. 

Chinny: 

Okay. So, basically better regenerate, 

that's what you're saying.

 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) :

Regeneration disabled. 

You will be dead 

in thirty two minutes. 

Chinny :

Unless I'm cured, yeah? 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) : 

There is no cure. 

You will be dead 

in thirty two minutes.

Chinny: 

Why do you keep saying that? 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) :

Because you will be dead in thirty two minutes.  

Chinny: 

You see? There you go again. Basically skipping 

thirty one whole minutes 

when I'm absolutely fine. 

Scottish, that's all I'm saying.

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) :

 You will be fine for thirty one minutes. 

You will be dead in thirty two minutes. 

Chinny :

Scotland's never conquered anywhere, you know. 

Not even a Shetland. 

River needs me. 

She's only just beginning. 

I can't die now.

 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) : 

You will not die now. 

You will die in 

thirty two minutes.

Chinny :

I'm going out in the first round. Ringing any bells? 

Argh! Okay, need something 

for the pain now. 

Come on, Amelia. 

It's me. Please. 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) :

I am not Amelia Pond. 

I am a voice interface. 

Chinny :

Amelia, listen to me. 

I can be brave for you, 

but you have got to tell me how. 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) :

I am not Amelia Pond. 

I am a voice interface. 


Chinny : 

Amelia. Amelia, please. 

HOLO-AMELIA (Aged 8) :

Fish fingers and custard. 

Chinny :

What did you say? 

Fish fingers and custard? 

Oh, Amelia Pond. 

Fish fingers and custard. 

Fish fingers and custard!

The Symbolic World | A Lecture by Jonathan Pageau

The Symbolic World | A Lecture by Jonathan Pageau

Our friend @Jonathan Pageau gave a lecture 

on the conceptual structure of Genesis 

for an event that was orchestrated 

by the Montreal Jung Society. 

Jordan felt that this lecture would serve 

as a wonderful adjunct to his biblical series, 

also on Genesis, featured on this channel. 

Thank you to the Montreal Jung Society 

and Jonathan for letting us release 

this video on our channel. 

We hope that you find it useful. 

Visit sites.google.com/site/cgjungmontreal 

for more info on the Montreal Jung Society.

Event Title: The Symbolic World - 

A Lecture by Jonathan Pageau

Event Description : 

“Meaning is showing itself 

to no longer be an overlay 

to an arbitrary world 

of phenomena, 

but rather the very 

Pattern of Reality.

 

Through the questions 

of emergence, 

attention and 

consciousness which have 

been permeating so many fields 

in the recent past, 

the reality of pattern, 

ritual and image 

have also come to the fore. 

Meaning is showing itself, 

in a burgeoning post-secular age, 

as no longer only a subjective overlay 

to an arbitrary world of phenomena, 

but rather the very pattern 

of Reality Itself. 

In this frame we come to realise 

that The Archetypal Truths are

 not mostly biological and mental 

constructs in humans; they are firstly 

the inescapable patterning 

of the indefinite potential 

of The World as it encounters 

Intelligence.”