Metamodern Meaning 10. Integral Pluralism and Meta-Religion (w/ Bruce Alderman)
After detailing the twists and turns of his rich spiritual journey through numerous religious traditions, Bruce Alderman discusses the many promises and challenges of trans-religious engagement. Bruce and Brendan discuss the difficulty of bridging divides, not just between different religious traditions, but also between different worldviews and value systems that appear within those traditions. Bruce talks about some of the promising groundwork he's helped lay to establish new interlineage institutions, and reflects on what remains to be done in the field of integral pluralism and the articulation of a meta-religious framework.
0:00 Introduction
1:46 Bruce's Journey through Multiple Spiritual Lineages
20:47 Seeking the Thread that Binds
25:40 Picking up the Pieces: Reconciling across Traditions and Worldviews
37:25 Relating across Worldviews: Strategies for Integrating
44:16 Building an Infrastructure for Integral, Interlineage Spirituality
53:51 Translineage Spirituality or Meta-Religion?
1:10:52 A Translineage Lineage: Adepts and Initates Doing the Work
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