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Philosophize This! · November 18, 2024 · 36m
Episode #215 — How Mysticism Is Missing from Our Modern Lives (Critchley, Heidegger)
What we've lost in banishing mysticism from modern life. Critchley and Heidegger both argue that the disenchantment of the world — stripping nature of sacred meaning — has left modern people spiritually homeless.
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Canon
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West: if modernity stripped the world of mystical meaning, contemplative practice may be the technology for restoring it. Meditation doesn't add magical beliefs — it restores the capacity for wonder that rationalism suppressed.
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West: just as the gut microbiome shapes mood and cognition, cultural consumption shapes what kinds of experience are available. A culture that feeds only on rationality starves the capacity for awe.
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