It’s been a while. These are getting to where the first half is a lot of terms, a lot of rearranging of words that have been introduced throughout. This would probably be at least two semesters in the college level, and you’d read the material. Overall, I think he did a good job picking the 50 session format. The meat usually comes in the last 15 minutes. Although the stuff at the beginning about agape is good too.
In this one, near the end, he brings up Ursula Goodenough’s “Sacred Depths of Nature” book. I have a post on that somewhere. Agape love is loving not just the person, but caring about the conditions that person lives in and how they are educated and nurtured. Goodenough’s book explores how we can move away from the narrative language we inherited from the Axail Age, a language of power coming from above, and explore our abilities and our connections to the environment. Instead of a goal of transcending from our limitations into a cosmic ultimate purpose, ground ourselves in reality and transcend into what we can do here and now.
I don’t think I ever did a separate post about Ursula