Guest speaker: Erik Davis
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotes below are by Erik Davis.]
"The imagination is a key, and pivotal interface, between human beings and the natural world."
"Any kind of restorative, sustainable renewal of our planet has to exist on the imaginal realm as well as the realm of technical solutions, political developments, and technological fixes. It’s a multi-dimensional problem."
"So the imagination is really the core, the source, the matrix of our multi-dimensional experience."
"The creative imagination functions in a different way than religious beliefs allow us to engage with."
"If we’re into integration now, with science and technology, that means that we can’t avoid that skeptical voice [of scientific, existential materialism]. We have engage and learn to integrate that skeptical voice as well. [To think] it’s our job to just say ‘No. Those science people they don’t understand. They’re locked in rationality. It’s actually this mystical world, this magical world’, is a profound failure, in my opinion, of our role. And the more we go into loosy-goosy mystic New Age stuff as a concretized belief system, rather than as an open, playful world that adds richness to our lives the way that poetry does, or the way that religious imagery does, drawing us to those higher realms but holding them lightly so that we can still engage a skeptical materialist, for me, that’s what integration means."
"The new paradigm is that there’s not a paradigm."
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Erik Davis’ Web Site: Techgnosis
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