Is There a Center Point of the Pendemic?

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i was thinking about the current way that social media platforms implement fact checking and community guide lines. And how can we, like you said, sort of an ichedote design with a yes to the underlying sentiment and then reveal the complexity? I have one in front of me right now. It's, imagine a four circle ven diagram, and it says, here's the four pillars of the ven diagram. The first one is people taking coved 19 seriously. People acknowledging that the pedemic is high letting deep seated structural racism and injustice. They're worried about impending economic devastation and fear of too many lockdowns. There's a centre point. It says, you can be here at the

What helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection?

Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joined by anthropologist and writer Jamie Wheal. Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind. In the book, he makes the case that in order to address the meta-crisis — the interconnected challenges we face, which we talked about in Episode 36 with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we must address the meaning crisis — the need to stay inspired, mended, and bonded in challenging times. Jamie argues that it doesn't matter whether we're staying inspired, mended, and bonded through institutionalized religion or other means as long as meaning-making is inclusively available to everyone.

What we hope you'll walk away with is a humane way to think about how to address the challenges we face, from COVID to climate — by enabling us to make meaning in challenging times.