This is my first and definitely not the last encounter with the philosopher Alexander Bard. We discuss his grand oeuvre of metaphysics: Process and Event.

Why should you only trust a philosopher with a great sex life? Shit happens: a philosophy that starts in the here and now. Boy pharaohs and pillar saints: the two faces of Gnosticism. Our issues with Christianity: lack of embodiment, lack of mature adulthood. How is the day of a good Zoroastrian?

Exciting conversation, brotherly love at first sight. Enjoy!!

Alexander Bard is a philosopher and futurist specializing in the relationship between humanity and technology, with a profound interest in psychoanalysis and anthropology to understand the impact of technological change on interpersonal relationships.

00:00:00 Intro

00:05:15 Don't trust a philosopher who doesn't have a great sex life. What's wrong with Gnosticism. Philosophy and the psychology of the philosopher.

Convincing vs aspiration, manipulation vs seduction, winning vs going somewhere together: the dance.

00:10:47 Process and Event. East over west. Uniting theology and philosophy. Yin-yang philosophy. Start from the nomadic. If you hide the process, you have to repeat the event. Keep the dichotomy and contradiction.

00:23:57 Zoroastrianism. The love of wisdom. Only archetypes reincarnate. The adult religion.

00:30:53 Religion. How to create stable communities? Fire temples, initiation, Nowruz.

00:39:08 Why am I not a Christian? My son's baptism. God's omnipotence and Gnosticism. The fear of the ecstatic.

00:46:11 Jonathan Pageau's monist Christianity. The philosophical vs the supernatural tradition.

00:49:18 Transcendental emergentism. Boy pharaohs and pillar saints. The king and the priest. What's wrong with reductionism (both physicalism and panpsychism)? Shit happens. Emergence vectors (physics, chemistry, biology, consciousness).

01:01:13 Yoga, alignment, Taoism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism and omnipotence. From a Child of a God, becoming an Adult of an Adult: enlightenment.

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Music: Bea Palya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBDp3qcFZdU1yoWIRpMSaZw

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