Brendan Graham Dempsey | Emergentism | 0. Introduction || A New Worldview of Real Meaning @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
In this "videobook" for 'Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World', we look at the contemporary crisis of meaning and consider a way forward that is both meaningful and real.
0:00 [Parameters]
0:11 The Recent Rise of Nihilism...
4:55 ...and Fundamentalism
9:52 Moving beyond the Meaning Crisis
14:14 Religion 2.0
20:11 What is 'Metamodern' Spirituality?
22:45 Designing a 'Religion that is Not a Religion'
27:38 Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity
📄 Read online: brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/emergentism-introduction
📘 Buy a print copy of the book: amazon.com/Emergentism-Religion-Complexity-Metamodern-Spirituality/dp/B0BF28PC2L
The new sciences of complexity have completely revolutionized our understanding of the universe as well as our place in it. At a time when nihilism and meaninglessness are affecting more people than ever, the new cosmic story of complexification comes as a genuine revelation. Evolution, we now know, is not some senseless meandering, but part of an ever-deepening learning process by which the universe is waking up to itself. And, as highly complex, conscious beings, we have a unique role to play in this cosmic drama.
Addressing the meaning crisis head-on, this book synthesizes such insights and explains their profound implications for spirituality and human purpose. Applying a ‘civilizational design’ lens to this endeavor, it boldly presents these ideas in terms of a new religion for our time. Emergentism is the complexity-informed, sincerely ironic, co-created religion for a metamodern moment poised between breakdown and breakthrough. In a time between worlds, at the edge of chaos, the conditions are ripe for a new God to emerge.
In this "videobook" for 'Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World', we look at the contemporary crisis of meaning and consider a way forward that is both meaningful and real.
0:00 [Parameters]
0:11 The Recent Rise of Nihilism...
4:55 ...and Fundamentalism
9:52 Moving beyond the Meaning Crisis
14:14 Religion 2.0
20:11 What is 'Metamodern' Spirituality?
22:45 Designing a 'Religion that is Not a Religion'
27:38 Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity
📄 Read online: brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/emergentism-introduction
📘 Buy a print copy of the book: amazon.com/Emergentism-Religion-Complexity-Metamodern-Spirituality/dp/B0BF28PC2L
The new sciences of complexity have completely revolutionized our understanding of the universe as well as our place in it. At a time when nihilism and meaninglessness are affecting more people than ever, the new cosmic story of complexification comes as a genuine revelation. Evolution, we now know, is not some senseless meandering, but part of an ever-deepening learning process by which the universe is waking up to itself. And, as highly complex, conscious beings, we have a unique role to play in this cosmic drama.
Addressing the meaning crisis head-on, this book synthesizes such insights and explains their profound implications for spirituality and human purpose. Applying a ‘civilizational design’ lens to this endeavor, it boldly presents these ideas in terms of a new religion for our time. Emergentism is the complexity-informed, sincerely ironic, co-created religion for a metamodern moment poised between breakdown and breakthrough. In a time between worlds, at the edge of chaos, the conditions are ripe for a new God to emerge.
