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Spiritual practice, like everything else in life, is evolving. What does this mean? By ‘Spiritual Practice’ I mean any activity that expands your sense of identity, for example meditation, contemplative philosophy, prayer, yoga, martial arts, psychedelics, transpersonal psychotherapy, fasting, visualisation, lucid dreaming, conscious parenting, forgiveness and much more. By ‘Evolving’ I mean that everything develops and adapts over time. Most of the spiritual traditions that have spawned these transformational practices emerged hundreds and often thousands of years ago in the pre-modern era. Modernity (rationality and science) and post-modernity (cultural diversity and the information age) are hugely influential historical periods that have happened since then, and I believe that contemporary spiritual practice needs to integrate the insights of these two worldviews as well as the premodern in order to keep being relevant and adaptive in a changing world.
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Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
In this episode I talk with Michael Garfield (host of the Future Fossils podcast, and Complexity podcast) about the Weirdness of this moment in history. Technology is steadily making its way towards, and eventually inside our bodies (desktop, to laptop, to smart phone, to brain implants, to biological computing) and this is causing many people to freak out. This process began with the use of the first tools but has gained momentum in the last 50 years. Michael challenges our assumptions about the boundaries we draw between ourselves, technology and the natural world and the distinctions we make between living and ‘non-living’ systems. How do we stay sane in a Weird moment in history defined by unstable climate, economy, pandemic, social structures and technologies? Just when we acclimatise to a ‘new normal’ the global snow globe gets shaken up again and we scramble to make sense once again. Surfing and sailing become the appropriate metaphors for riding and navigating this kind of turbulence.
You can find Michael’s work at:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Future Fossils Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505
Complexity Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/complexity/id1482984603
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield
Bandcamp: https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/
For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk
To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree
My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ
My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/
My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms
P and C owned by Ralph Cree 2021
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