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RE/THINKING RELIGION #11 - The Question of Subtle Energy w/ John Vervaeke & Bruce Alderman

The Integral Stage

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The Importance of Spiritual Somatic Access

I think the spiritual somatic access, the ineffable in our spirit of transcendence are going to now receive increasing cultural attention. Their prominence and importance is going to shift because a lot of stuff that we used to identify as properly human is being taken away by AGI. And I do have a concern that many of the standardized versions of the legacy religions aren't properly disposed to dealing with that shift in a good way. People capitalizing on this in an exploitative fashion, people that are charlatans about this are going to find that this is a new niche for at least for a while that they can capitalize on.

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And so that working along that line of the energetic sensing is really a good bridge, I think, between the propositional and moving into the other piece and kind of helping you to deepen into your immediate embodied experience of those things.
Speaker 1
I think the spiritual somatic access, the ineffable in our spirit of transcendence and the ineffable in the soul of our embodiment are going to now receive increasing cultural attention, and their prominence and importance is going to shift because a lot of stuff that we used to identify as properly human is being taken away by the advent, the very imminent advent of AGI. And so I think it's important to note that I think this is going to be a proper part of an increasing concern with spiritual somatic, the spiritual somatic
Speaker 3
access,
Speaker 1
and that getting clear about this like we're trying to do here, I'm trying to phrase this so it doesn't self-congratulatory. But I'm trying to make the argument that what we're doing here right now needs to be taken up by a lot of people and more and developed precisely because there's going to be increasing pressure that this access will be the home, the anchor of what human identity is. That's a prediction I'm making and I think it's a very plausible prediction. And I do have a concern that many of the standardized versions of the legacy religions aren't properly disposed to dealing with that shift in a good way. And so for those of you who are watching this, I'm going to make a request that you think about, you obviously have an interest in this topic, is that you think about promoting deeper and more careful discussion about all of this and more learning about it. There's some excellent books that I can't remember the name of the person who wrote, he literally wrote the book and I met him at post conferences, Simon, and I can't remember Simon's last name, but he wrote, literally wrote the book called The Subtle Body. And he's not taking a position, but it's this great genealogy comprehensive thing. And I recommend you find a way to trace into this really carefully and rigorously and reflectively like we're trying to do here because two things I think are also going to be prominent. People capitalizing on this in an exploitative fashion, people that are charlatans about this are going to find that this is a new niche for at least for a while that they can capitalize on. And so get ahead of the curve of the bullshit artists as fast as you can. And let's try and engender a cultural discussion around this that is properly careful and reflectively rigorous. Yeah, absolutely.

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