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:   

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

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Exploring Truth in philosophy, science, & art. We'll uncover concepts from psychology, mythology, spirituality, literature, media, and more. If you like Lex Fridman or Curt Jaimungal, you'll love this educational channel.

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