Exploring the Metaphysics of Adjacency and Almostness

Brendan talks to Layman Pascal about how to live embodied, multi-perspectival religion, as well as a novel framework for thinking about it. 

0:00 Introduction

1:40 Q: What Is "Metamodern Spirituality"?

I. Embodying the Multi-Perspectival Sacred: Metamodern Spirituality Gets Physical

  5:22 Metamodern Spirituality and "Sacred Naturalism"

  9:44 Naturalizing the Sacred, or Sacralizing the Natural?

  18:37 How Do We Engage Traditional Literalism?

  26:06 Transform the Old, or Invent the New?

  35:47 Limits of Pluralism

  44:12 An Urgent Spirituality: What Does the Moment Require of Us?

  59:11 Lived Religion: (Knowingly) Embodying the Sacred Style

II. Theorizing the Multi-Perspectival Sacred: Metamodern Spirituality Gets Metaphysical

  1:16:16 A Metaphysics of Adjacency

  1:27:14 The Principle of Difference

  1:35:25 The Validity (and Challenge) of Different Lenses

Layman's writings can be found at:

https://laymanpascal.substack.com/

The Integral Stage podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4...

More on metamodern spirituality at:

www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com