I AM - David Long | Soul, Self, Awakening, Ghosts, Afterlife, & Reincarnation @IAMdavidlong | Uploaded September 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I AM - David Long talks about what our current best knowledge has to say about Soul, Self, Awakening, Ghosts, Afterlife, & Reincarnation, separating fact from fiction as well as exploring what poetic truth these ideas might hold.
We start by trying to put humans in context, Introducing the idea of the holon an holarchy, as well as different ideas about cosmology on the outside, and archetypes of the collective unconscious on the inside.
Then at 37:17 we talk about "awakening", how our relationship with our own inner archetypes can be problematic, unhealthy, pathological, and unconscious, or how we can consciously create and project into "higher archetypes" and refine over time by taking creative control of our life!
Next at 58:43 we go to a haunted house and talk about Ghosts, the logic around it and what REALLY might be going on with some help from the famed UK mentalist Darren Brown.
Then at 1:08:40 we go to Heaven, & as we leave we talk about why taking heaven literally is such a bad idea, as well as what a metaphorical translation might look like. (and how it relates back to what we have been talking about in terms of "awakening" or "the blanket") We even talk about some of these "back from heaven" type stories. We talk about what happens when we die. Now that we have deconstructed the self the question is "what happens to who?" or "who dies?" and how the lesson of death is to appreciate what we have while we have it.
Lastly at 1:29:05 we talk about Reincarnation, we work to put the ideas in their context (their relation to racism and the Hindu cast system) and then look at the logical problems and how we can know it's not literally true, as well as how it might poetically be true. I hope you enjoy it.
Featuring:
Sam Harris
Kevin Afflerbach (on George Herbert Mead)
Genpo Roshi
Joseph Campbell
Robert Masters
Andrew Cohen
Derren Brown
Michael Shermer
Anthony Fantano
Cornell West
Clips from:
I Heart Huckabees
Zoolander
Herman's Head
South Park (Imagination Land)
Lord of the Rings
Men In Black
A Clockwork Orange
The Master
Derren Brown (Ghost Hunter, Fear & Faith)
Pete Holmes Show
The Mighty Boosh (old Gregg)
Snoop Dogg
The Unborn
Tim Minchin
Cleopatra
Bhagavad Gita
Links in order:
Do You Really Have a New Body Every 7 Years?:
youtu.be/ZCiuMomjVx0
Kevin on George Herbert Mead:
youtu.be/A0m_whX8ZN0
Genpo Roshi (Big Mind Practice):
youtu.be/n22a1Hf4rjk
Religious Symbolism & Non-Dual Synthesis:
youtu.be/OVFzF0H2yA4
"Am I Bipolar or Waking up", By Sean Blackwell:
youtu.be/z2Zn9R2-0-k
Spiral Dynamics Intro: The Meme Tale:
youtu.be/OOf2_69Df4M
Derren Brown: Fear and Faith Pt-2:
youtu.be/LksVbHxLRvY
Christianity: Literal vs Metaphorical - 1. Jesus and Heaven: youtu.be/W-rx-NKrYa8
Other links:
Check out my web page here:
iam-davidlong.com
Support me on Patreon:
patreon.com/iamdavidlong
I AM - David Long talks about what our current best knowledge has to say about Soul, Self, Awakening, Ghosts, Afterlife, & Reincarnation, separating fact from fiction as well as exploring what poetic truth these ideas might hold.
We start by trying to put humans in context, Introducing the idea of the holon an holarchy, as well as different ideas about cosmology on the outside, and archetypes of the collective unconscious on the inside.
Then at 37:17 we talk about "awakening", how our relationship with our own inner archetypes can be problematic, unhealthy, pathological, and unconscious, or how we can consciously create and project into "higher archetypes" and refine over time by taking creative control of our life!
Next at 58:43 we go to a haunted house and talk about Ghosts, the logic around it and what REALLY might be going on with some help from the famed UK mentalist Darren Brown.
Then at 1:08:40 we go to Heaven, & as we leave we talk about why taking heaven literally is such a bad idea, as well as what a metaphorical translation might look like. (and how it relates back to what we have been talking about in terms of "awakening" or "the blanket") We even talk about some of these "back from heaven" type stories. We talk about what happens when we die. Now that we have deconstructed the self the question is "what happens to who?" or "who dies?" and how the lesson of death is to appreciate what we have while we have it.
Lastly at 1:29:05 we talk about Reincarnation, we work to put the ideas in their context (their relation to racism and the Hindu cast system) and then look at the logical problems and how we can know it's not literally true, as well as how it might poetically be true. I hope you enjoy it.
Featuring:
Sam Harris
Kevin Afflerbach (on George Herbert Mead)
Genpo Roshi
Joseph Campbell
Robert Masters
Andrew Cohen
Derren Brown
Michael Shermer
Anthony Fantano
Cornell West
Clips from:
I Heart Huckabees
Zoolander
Herman's Head
South Park (Imagination Land)
Lord of the Rings
Men In Black
A Clockwork Orange
The Master
Derren Brown (Ghost Hunter, Fear & Faith)
Pete Holmes Show
The Mighty Boosh (old Gregg)
Snoop Dogg
The Unborn
Tim Minchin
Cleopatra
Bhagavad Gita
Links in order:
Do You Really Have a New Body Every 7 Years?:
youtu.be/ZCiuMomjVx0
Kevin on George Herbert Mead:
youtu.be/A0m_whX8ZN0
Genpo Roshi (Big Mind Practice):
youtu.be/n22a1Hf4rjk
Religious Symbolism & Non-Dual Synthesis:
youtu.be/OVFzF0H2yA4
"Am I Bipolar or Waking up", By Sean Blackwell:
youtu.be/z2Zn9R2-0-k
Spiral Dynamics Intro: The Meme Tale:
youtu.be/OOf2_69Df4M
Derren Brown: Fear and Faith Pt-2:
youtu.be/LksVbHxLRvY
Christianity: Literal vs Metaphorical - 1. Jesus and Heaven: youtu.be/W-rx-NKrYa8
Other links:
Check out my web page here:
iam-davidlong.com
Support me on Patreon:
patreon.com/iamdavidlong
