The balance is importantat people pursue that spiritual teachir route, it would not remain embodied in community. By becoming an incredibly powerful virtuous being, they actually not done well by the other dimensions their ethical responsibilitiest. We see this with the the less than admirable personal lives rit of many spiritual teachers. Andose people, these are the obligations. Are you present in those obligations? A, where do they somehow contradict with the virtuous picture of yourself that you've created? What can you become of person who clings to bathroom after you've become that person who is that virtuous on stage?"
In this first conversation after a year sabbatical from the Emerge project I'm speaking with Zak Stein. This is a far ranging conversation about ethics, education, trauma, the erotics of moral understanding, and more.
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Show Notes
- 0:00 Opening
- 0:03 How to create the kinds of humans who can respond to the meta-crisis?
- 0:08 “We’re not sure what it means to be good anymore” / what’s worth loving
- 0:09 Eros and Ethics / Ensoulment
- 0:17 Moral development
- 0:23 “How do you get someone interested in what is truly good?”
- 0:25 Linking / meta-psychology
- 0:29 Community ethics feedback loops
- 0:33 Objective ethics
- 0:37 Embodied ethical sensing
- 0:38 Intersection between Trauma & Ethics, desensitization, somatic de-armoring
- 0:43 Trust, return of the Sacred
- 0:47 The Moral Exemplar
- 0:52 Exposure to the full ethical range
- 0:54 “Trauma” in culture
- 0:62 Evil
- 0:68 Practices for Wellbeing
- 0:72 “Enlightenment is your greatest disappointment”
- 0:74 Eros & Ethics
- 0:77 Human as ethical actor, intimacy and obligation
- 0:81 Circling, following “aliveness”, co-discovering moral landscape
- 0:85 Path = compromising moral integrity increasingly intolerable
- 0:88 Ethics in Community, MAPLE’s advantage
- 0:90 Closing