Brendan Graham Dempsey | Emergentism | 1. From Religion to Reduction || How We Broke Meaning @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
An overview of how we went from the meaning-rich (but confused) world of traditional religion to the meaning-impoverished (but clarified) world of modern reductionistic, deterministic materialism.
0:00 Parts and Wholes
4:24 Holistic Religious Traditionalism
11:54 The Rise of Modern Science
21:14 Reductionism and the Meaning Crisis
đ Read online: brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/emergentism-from-religion-to-reduction
đ 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 âcivilizational designâ 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.
An overview of how we went from the meaning-rich (but confused) world of traditional religion to the meaning-impoverished (but clarified) world of modern reductionistic, deterministic materialism.
0:00 Parts and Wholes
4:24 Holistic Religious Traditionalism
11:54 The Rise of Modern Science
21:14 Reductionism and the Meaning Crisis
đ Read online: brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/emergentism-from-religion-to-reduction
đ 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 âcivilizational designâ 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.
