Part 1: Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality

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For this inaugural episode, we feel into some of the commonalities and differences between Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality and Integral Life Practice, and John’s “religion that is not a religion” and his work around developing an ecology of practices suitable for addressing the meaning crisis. We touch on a number of related themes:

• the creative deployment of mythic or literary figures, from Cthulhu and zombies, to the Centaur, the Minotaur, and the khora
• the importance of wrestling with existential and epistemological limit conditions
• the role of ambiguity in higher forms of rationality
• the relation of non-theism to classical theism and atheism
• the history of integrative practices
• the ‘traps’ in conventional practice that can thwart balanced development
• …and much more.

Part 2: The Two Worlds, The Syntax of Being, and the Practice of Grief

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For the second episode, we discuss the distinction between absolute and relative in traditional and modern metaphysics, the Two Worlds mythology, and the Ascender and Descender paths, and we consider some historical and contemporary approaches to reconceiving their relations. In the second half of the dialogue, we turn towards the emotional or ‘felt’ dimensions of a fundamental shift in perspectives, including David Michael Levin’s notions of ‘crying for a vision’ and gelassenheit as the resolution of dualism; and we begin to touch on the importance for a Religion that is Not a Religion of ‘moving into the lack’ and fully grieving the death of God.