Embracing Spiritual Complexity

Layman Pascal joins me to discuss his new book, Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds. Who was G. I. Gurdjieff and why is he keenly relevant to our present metamodern moment? In what ways can we see in his work anticipations of contemporary spiritual modalities, such as sincere irony, integration of pluralities, immanent transcendence, and the mythopoeic construction of new imaginal narratives gesturing beyond modernity? With classic flare and verbal acuity, Layman unpacks his "hyperpersonal essays for the grandfather of metamodern spirituality."

0:00 Introduction

1:38 Who was G. I. Gurdjieff?

5:21 Gurdjieff and Metamodernity

9:29 "The Sly Man": Serious Play, Sincere Irony, Crazy Wisdom

20:04 Integrating Pluralities

31:04 Gurdjieff the Shamanoid

36:51 Real vs. Imaginal Mythos

51:35 Eso-, Meso-, Exo-teric

56:31 Pascal's Imaginal Gurdjieff?

1:05:25 Transcendent Immanence

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