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Ep. 50 - Tillich and Barfield

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Meaning Crisis and the Reconstruction of Participation

I argued that we can link that to Michael Anderson's notion of the massive redeployment hypothesis. I went through this idea of how the symbolic now you can understand it as the imaginal is this process of reexactation and reducing new functions. This helps to explain the translucency of the symbol why we can see through it into justice and balance are not logically identical but they are not separate from each other. It also explains our temptation to literalism and idolatry We can forget we can forget justice and focus just on having balance, he says.

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