Metamodern Meaning

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 Introduction1:46 Bruce's Journey through Multiple Spiritual Lineages20:47 Seeking the Thread that Binds25:40 Picking up the Pieces: Reconciling across Traditions and Worldviews37:25 Relating across Worldviews: Strategies for Integrating 44:16 Building an Infrastructure for Integral, Interlineage Spirituality53:51 Translineage Spirituality or Meta-Religion?1:10:52 A Translineage Lineage: Adepts and Initates Doing the WorkThe Integral Stage podcast:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4...www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Raoul Eshelman talks to Brendan about "performatism," the post-postmodern artistic epoch characterized by a return of transcendence. But what sort of "transcendence"? And how does it relate to history, religion, and metaphysics? Eshelman navigates these various lines of inquiry, while also pointing out some important distinctions between his work and other cultural theorists currently exploring these topics. Finally, what lies ahead for performatist theory, and for theories of the post-postmodern more generally? 0:00 Introduction1:29 The Return of Transcendence: Postmodernism, Post-Postmodernism, and Historical Dialectic16:41 Performatist Art and Post-Metaphysics21:26 A Second Naivete? When Beautiful Belief Overpowers Banal Skepticism29:50 Performatist Spirituality?31:49 Debates within Post-Postmodernist Theory43:42 Performatist Transcendence: A Response to Postmodern Disenchantment58:24 A Cultural Studies Emphasis1:05:32 Horizons: An Emerging Post-Postmodern DiscourseRaoul Eshelman's website can be found here:https://performatism.de/www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Roger Thisdell talks to Brendan about jhana meditation and the transformational experience born of such high state cultivation which suddenly left him with "a mind which represents itself as permanently centreless and without the sense of a singly, positioned epistemic agent." 0:00 Introduction3:40 Jhana Meditation: An Overview13:09 The Phenomenology of No "Self"18:36 The Epistemology and Ontology of No "Self"24:01 Roger's Story31:16 Suffering and No "Self"34:44 The Web vs. the Spider41:33 Navigating States49:33 Development: States vs. Stages53:57 Nonduality56:00 Jhana: The Ladder That You Throw Away58:24 The God beyond "God": Beyond I AM1:09:16 Cessation: Is There Awareness beyond Experience?"Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas" by Leigh Brasington: https://www.amazon.com/Right-Concentr...Graph source: https://www.suttavada.foundation/brai...Comparison of Christian and Buddhist cosmological systems with consideration of their relationship to jhanas (mentioned at 58:24) available here: https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/...www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Daniel Görtz, one of the authors behind the Hanzi Freinacht works, explores the topic of metamodern spirituality with Brendan Graham Dempsey in a rich and illuminating discussion. After some initial exposition highlighting important distinctions between the metamodern and integral paradigms, Görtz and Dempsey dive into considering the implications of metamodern developmental thought for religion and theology, tracking the evolution of "God" into metamodernity. Meta-religious frameworks, as well as the relationship of the Model of Hierarchical Complexity to theories of "consciousness evolution," are also considered. The conversation concludes with a look towards metamodern mythopoetic and praxipoetic possibilities on the horizon, and the challenge to shape new containers for spiritual expression in metamodernity.0:00 Introduction1:02 Metamodernism vs. Integral: In Search of Post-Postmodern Social Transformation 19:09 Millenarian Woo vs. Gradual Spiritualization 28:08 Towards a Metamodern God: Teleology, Oscillation, and the Development of Religion43:34 The Headless God: The Relentless Murder and Resurrection of Spirit48:32 Meta-Religion? A Stage-Model Metanarrative for the Evolution of God1:00:40 Cognitive Development or Consciousness Evolution?1:12:00 Metamodern Prophets and Sincerely Ironic Saints1:26:55 A Challenge to Co-Create New Religious Praxiswww.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Timotheus Vermeulen talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the development of "metamodernism," a paradigm for understanding art and culture after postmodernism. After discussing the original impetus for and formation of the idea, he reflects on the continued relevance of the paradigm today, more than a decade after he and colleague Robin van den Akker first proposed it in their seminal 2010 article, "Notes on Metamodernism." More recent applications and deployments of the term "metamodernism" outside cultural studies proper (e.g., by Hanzi Freinacht, Lene Rachel Andersen, Tomas Björkman, Jonathan Rowson and Layman Pascal) are also considered. The conversation concludes with a look to the future of metamodernism, and a consideration of how it is playing out in the realm of contemporary spirituality.00:00 Introduction01:56 Beginnings: Coining "Metamodernism" for a New Cultural Sensibility09:25 Is Metamodernism the "Dominant Structure of Feeling"? An Uneven Distribution17:57 Roots: The Meta-Crisis, Internet 2.0, and a New Generation27:23 Manifestations: Pragmatic Idealism on Left and Right: Informed Naivete and Relativist Absolutism38:41 On Recent Developments: Cultural Metamodernism vs. Political/Developmental Metamodernism56:19 Currents and Horizons: Depthiness and Metamodern Spirituality: 'Truth,' 'Transcendence,' and the Search for Meaning after Postmodernism1:09:52 Political Metamodernism as Metamodern Cultural Production1:15:36 Where Are We Going? Metamodernism as a Time Between Worlds To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Alexander Bard talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about syntheism, a movement exploring the "creation of God in the internet age." Envisioning "God" not as the creator at the beginning of time, but rather as the networked Event in the future to which we all are tending, Bard's syntheist philosophy challenges us to consider the coming Sensocracy, which is even now emerging in both pluralist and totalitarian guises. Taking issue with "evolution of consciousness" models and the idea of developmental spirituality, Bard argues rather for technology's development as the core dynamism in a world that knows only Process and Event. 0:00 Introduction1:22 Contextualizing Syntheism: Religion and Technology Since the Bronze Age7:40 Cultural Code Development: Process and Event---and Technology13:30 Metamodernism vs. Syntheism: Human Development or Technological Development?29:48 Metamodernism vs. Syntheism: The Development of God and the Ultimate Event40:17 The Barred Absolute: God as Relative Utopia (Syntheos)45:20 Creating Syntheos: The Coming Sensocracy (Totalitarian or Pluralistic?)54:31 Development vs. Novelty vs. Event1:04:27 Humanism, Metamodernism, Syntheism and Religion1:19:39 Dividual Co-Creation: Living Archetypallywww.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Exploring redefining religious terms like 'God' and 'Spirit' in a metamodern context. Navigating the complexities of heaven, hell, and afterlife. Embracing sacred geometry and myths beyond conventional narratives. Advocating for reclaiming and adapting religious terminology for modern conversations.

Explore the embodiment of the multi-perspectival sacred in metamodern spirituality, from naturalizing the sacred to engaging traditional literalism. Delve into the urgency of spirituality in the present moment, navigating terminologies, and embodying a sacred style with proactive agency. Dive into metaphysics of adjacency, the mystical concept of divine union, and diverse interpretations of numinous experiences.

Brendan Graham Dempsey talks to Jeremy Johnson about structures of consciousness, mapping the whole, and metamodern spirituality.0:00 Introduction2:32 A Trans-Disciplinary Approach4:17 Seeking the Whole: Gebser7:39 Seeking the Whole: Gebser vs. Wilber?10:27 Modern Totalizing: The Limits of Developmental Maps15:37 Our Meta Moment between Worlds20:20 Living the Between: A Non-Totalizing Meta-Narrative?25:47 The Meta-Crisis, The Meaning Crisis, and the Narrative of the In-Between36:03 A Felt Sense of the Whole: Metamodern Reclaiming of the Non-Modern48:28 Approaches to Modern Systems Transformation58:47 Meta Spirituality: Being Present to the Whole1:15:40 Concretizing Presence: Practices for Meta Living1:23:24 Living Out Our Composite Natures: Concretizing Multiple Structures of Consciousness1:38:48 The Whole Beyond Everything1:41:24 A Myth of the Whole: "God" as Originary Presence?More on Jeremy at mutations.blogwww.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com To hear more, visit brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

Lene Rachel Andersen discusses updating traditions, cultural code-switching, and sense-making in a metamodern world. They explore the boundaries of cultural codes, the role of premodern beliefs, and the invention of religion. Touching on transcendence and making meaning post-postmodernism, they offer a unique perspective on navigating complexity in today's society.