Onto Ep 3 today
Ep. 3 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Continuous Cosmos and Modern World Grammar - Bing video
After 20 minutes he gets to something that I’d been trying to do, but I was never serious enough about it to seek out deeper academic study. Fortunately some others have. Before seeking a church in my early 30’s I was noticing Biblical references in literature and history. I thought it would be good to understand these allegories and sources of inspiration for the people who founded the culture I live in.
Vervaeke points to this and quotes Nietschze, “I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.” When I’ve tried to bring this up with atheists, they dismiss it, saying I’m just grabbing another interpretation of the Bible that’s as untrue as any other. But that is the paradigm of thinking I’m seeking these interpretations with the goal of restoring religion or giving it a meaning that is palatable for the modern ear.
Vervaeke puts it in the context of the evolution of thinking itself. Shamanism was an attempt to bring themselves into harmony with the cycles. The Axial Age added myths on top of that, making wisdom a form of power, a way of removing the self from the cycle to gain knowledge. Science has shown us the cycles are what we are. There is a movement toward entropy but the patterns that form as that energy is released form galaxies and planets and on this one, life. Understanding that can break the religious notion of there being a separate reality. Oddly enough, the story telling traditions are what led us to this realization.