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Ep. 33 - The Spirituality of RR: Wonder, Awe, Mystery, and Sacredness

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Mystery of Religio

I want to talk about the mystery of religio, but I need to make a distinction here. There's a distinction between something being a phenomenological mystery and it being something that I cannot theoretically explain. It is phenomenologically impossible for me to perspectivaly know what it is like to be dead because whenever I try to conjure up a frame, oh I'm in a dark room, but wait, I'm still there in the dark room. So when I'm talking about mystery, I'm not talking automatically, you need an additional argument to go from phenomenological mystery to the claim of theoretical inexplicably. To equate them is to equivocate between propositional and Perspectival knowing

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