Ep. 19 - Augustine and Aquinas
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Great Schism in Christianity
In 1054, there's a division. Christianity splits between an Eastern Orthodox and what's going to be called a Catholic version of Christianity. By separating itself from the East, Christianity loses some of its deeper connections to that Neoplatonic mystical theology. The West starts to become less and less platonic and more and more Aristotelian. Now as always, this starts with a change in psychotechnology.
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