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169. An Atheist in the Realm of Myth | Stephen Fry
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Evolution of Alchemy
The idea that we have that science is a useful endeavor the fact that we're looking to the material world for redemption that's all part of a narrative and I was absolutely staggered by Jung's analysis of the emergence of science out of alchemy. The alchemical tradition was a two thousand year old dream a narrative dream a counterposition to Christianity with its emphasis on abstracted spirituality suggesting that what we lacked could be found in the depths of the material world. It took thousands of years for that idea to assemble itself with enough force so that we could start to have scientists.
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