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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