Why Reclaiming Value Is Critical for Our Survival - Zak Stein | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #51
Zak is a writer, educator, and futurist whose work explores issues around existential risk and the meta-crisis. He studied religion and philosophy at Hampshire College and then later educational neuroscience, human development, and educational philosophy at Harvard. He is a co-founder of several organizations including Lectica, Civilization Research Institute, and the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He is also the author of several books including “Education in a Time Between Worlds” and a co-author of “First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on Cosmoerotic Humanism, the Meta-crisis, and the World to Come.” In this episode we speak about the problems of post-modernity, why value & consciousness are fundamental aspects of reality, Cosmo-Erotic humanism, evolving perennialism, the problem of evil, the most powerful and dangerous religion in the world today and so much more.
🔗[Links & resources] 🔗
Zak Stein’s personal site - https://www.zakstein.org/
First Principles First Values by David J. Temple (Zak’s latest book) - https://www.amazon.com/First-Principl...
My first conversation with Zak on the Education Crisis - • Zak Stein - The Education Crisis | E...
My second conversation with Zak on his approach to human development - • Zak Stein - Complexity Ensoulment Tra...
David Ray Griffin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R...
David Hume - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
Iain McGhilchrist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Mc...
John Vervaeke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ve...
Nick Land - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom - https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Utopia-Me...
Perennial Philosophy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perenni...
Jurgen Habermas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BC...
Ken Wilber - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber
Stuart Kauffman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_...
B.F. Skinner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.F._Sk...
Noam Chomsky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Ch...
Richard Dawkins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Rupert Sheldrake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_...
📝[Show Notes] 📝
0:00 - Introduction
1:55 - The Problems of Post-Modernity
12:31 - Why value & consciousness are fundamental aspects of reality
21:35 - What is Cosmo-Erotic Humanism?
42:40 - Evolving Perennialism and The Problem of Evil
52:20 - Global Intimacy Disorder & Emotional Maturity
1:04:35 - Balancing advances in technology with ethical development
1:10:36 - Bringing the wisdom of religions to the scientific rationalist mind
1:26:26 - The most powerful & dangerous religion in the world today
1:32:30 - The difficulty of transmitting ethical leadership
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