283 - John Vervaeke and Paul VanderKlay - The Quest For A Spiritual Home Conference Warmup
The Symbolic World
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The Home Horizon Polarity in Ascetic Practice
Asceticism can be understood as a type of conscious alienation and i think jordan pewderson really captures it in the ways he talks about it. In most religious traditions there's a weird tension between a kind of home and self alienation to a certain extent like ascetic practice and pilgrimage is a good example seems. Our notions of the sacred also have that polarity in it we talk about the sacred is that which makes us most at home but then there's the new menace right that is also deeply horizontal I don't want to say "horizontal" because that word doesn't mean what i want it to mean but in a really really powerful way yeah.
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