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RE/THINKING RELIGION Part 7 w/ John Vervaeke & Bruce Alderman

The Integral Stage

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The Future Is Out There, Never Arrives

I think there's something, I mean, it demands a lot of people to approach these things in the mode of a questioning that doesn't undermine their ability to act and regulate themselves. There's also something about questioning that strikes me as having a future orientation. The future is out there, never arrives. It's always an unknown. And so I associate that with the feeling I have that something like preparedness could be a general orienting principle for religion going forward. Because it has this element on the one hand, this esoteric element of preparedness - we don't know what we're preparing for. But on the other hand, there's this social organization element, this social ethic that's

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