Embodiment, Faith, and Navigating the Meta Crisis with JORDAN HALL | EMP Podcast 137
Apr 4, 2024
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Tech entrepreneur Jordan Hall delves into Game B project, discussing paradigm shifts, truth vs. beauty, and the role of faith in navigating the meta crisis. Emphasizes importance of embodiment, virtue development, and avoiding panic through deep love.
Faith is an embodied capacity underlying understanding, fostering intimacy and relationality in engaging with belief systems.
Embodied faith enables individuals to confront emotional trauma, promoting healing and growth through transformative experiences like MDMA therapy.
The interplay between faith, love, and personal development showcases the transformative power of faith in self-discovery and emotional healing.
Deep dives
Deep Dive into Faith as an Embodied Capacity
Faith is depicted as an embodied capacity underlying understanding, acting as the deep substrate that allows for intimacy and relationality in engaging with the field of thought and belief. This embodied quality precedes comprehension and enables a foundational basis for grasping concepts and articulating understanding.
Navigating Faith in Grief and Healing Trauma
The conversation delves into the role of faith in times of intense grieving and healing trauma. Personal experiences highlight how faith, as an embodied capacity, can enable individuals to confront deep-seated emotional challenges, fostering healing and growth. Exploring traumatic therapy and transformative experiences, such as MDMA therapy, reveals the strength derived from cultivated faith in oneself.
Relating Faith to Love and Personal Growth
The discussion links faith to love and personal development, drawing from Corinthians teachings on the significance of love in spiritual faith. Insights from grappling with childhood trauma and embracing psychedelic therapy underscore the transformative power of faith in self-discovery and emotional healing, ultimately leading to profound personal growth and acceptance.
Faith as a Fundamental Grounding for Spiritual Transformation
Unpacking the multifaceted nature of faith, the discourse elucidates faith as a vital enabler for spiritual transformation and acceptance. Exploring the intersection of faith, personal trauma resolution, and spiritual awakenings, the narrative underscores how embodied faith acts as a cornerstone for navigating inner challenges and embracing transformative experiences for holistic growth and self-realization.
Relationships as the Foundation of Meaning in Life
The podcast episode delves into the concept that the meaning of life is intricately linked to relationships. By enhancing our relational abilities, we can grow in competence, virtue, and connection. The discussion highlights five essential relationships: the connection to oneself, the interaction with the external world, the engagement with other individuals, and the exploration of transcendent forces. These relationships, starting from an embodied layer, emphasize the importance of somatic awareness before spiritual practices, such as meditation. The episode underscores that developing attunement through physical interactions, like rough and tumble play, lays the groundwork for deeper engagements like Socratic dialogues and scientific exploration.
Challenges in Rethinking Faith and Science
Another focal point of the podcast is the intricate relationship between faith and science, particularly in navigating modern challenges. The conversation critiques the prevailing misconceptions about faith as merely accepting propositions without evidence. It addresses the difficulty of redeeming faith when associated with outdated beliefs and propositions. Emphasizing the need for individuals to wrestle with faith and science, the episode advocates for a nuanced understanding that integrates truth-seeking with spiritual growth. It warns against the dangers of ideological colonization in scientific endeavors and calls for a return to foundational virtues to reconcile the dynamic interplay between faith, reason, and societal progress.
Welcome back to the Evolve Move Play podcast!
In this episode Jordan Hall and I explore the role of embodiment in addressing the meta crisis facing humanity.
Jordan shares his background in the tech industry and the origins of the Game B project, which seeks to understand and respond to the interconnected challenges of our time. The discussion delves into the relationship between individuals and institutions, the evolution of paradigmatic thinking, and the shift from a world of rhythm to one of tone.
We examine the tension between truth-first and beauty-first approaches to reality, and how this relates to the historical relationship between science and religion. We also discuss the concept of faith as an embodied capacity, situated within a stack of communication, understanding, hope, and love.
Our conversation highlights the importance of embodied practices in developing virtue, cultivating faith, and navigating the complexities of the meta crisis. Perhaps one key to moving forward is to avoid panic and to love more deeply, emphasizing the transformative power of embodiment in personal and collective growth.
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00:00:00:00 : Jordan's Background and Game B
00:07:48:11 : Embodiment and the Meta Crisis
00:19:13:13 : Identity, Individuals, and Institutions
00:27:44:09 : Paradigmatic Mind and the Shift from Rhythm to Tone
00:35:56:17 : Truth vs. Beauty in Approaching Reality
00:45:35:00 : Faith as Embodied Capacity
00:54:26:19 : Science, Religion, and Embodiment in Education
01:10:21:11 : Cultivating Faith Through Embodied Practices
01:19:11:09 : Reconciling Science and Religion
01:27:44:13 : Embodied Practices, Virtue, and the Meta Crisis
1:34:36:00 : The Call to Love More Deeply
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