0:00 Brendan Graham Dempsey and Marshall Æon

1:34 Brendan’s history with Christianity (from evangelism to apostasy)

4:30 Dandyism, Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche, The Odyssey, Kierkegard

6:36 Denys Turner at Yale Divinity School, Catholic mysticism, Plotinus

10:26 What is Metamodernism?

14:40 Metamodern metaphysics?

16:23 Jean-Luc Marion - God Without Being, Nietzsche, Nihilism

19:37 What is Metamodern spirituality?

20:51 Post-Metaphysical Spirituality (Bruce Alderman, Layman Pascal, Ken Wilber)

21:20 Subtle energy meditation • Maximal vs Minimal metaphysics

22:53 The value and dark side of meditation

23:24 Adyashanti: Meditation can be both undervalued and overvalued

26:41 Paul Ricoeur’s Second Naïveté

29:00 What is The Void?

30:49 Buddhism’s emphasis on Emptiness (Sunyata)

33:30 The Void as the fundamental nature of existence

33:44 Nietzsche’s critiques of Christianity

35:30 Fullness and Emptiness are not mutually exclusive

37:00 Journey of Ascent vs Descent

38:16 Christianity as a critique on Eastern spirituality

38:54 Buddhism as a critique on other Indian schools

39:34 Christ’s resurrection representing the redemption of the world (in contrast to Maya, the dream state)

41:36 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Christogenesis, the Omega Point

42:58 Nagarjuna

43:46 Becoming the Void

44:12 Complexity, Emergence

44:23 Brendan’s Book “Emergentism”

46:52 The value of Cessation of consciousness

49:30 Schopenhauer and Silenus

50:52 Many kinds of emptiness

51:48 Spiritual ideals vs possibilities • Is spirituality goal-oriented?

52:50 Subject/object non-duality • Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, Shankara

55:45 Many kinds of non-duality

56:27 Moving towards a spiritual ideal vs becoming an instrument for reality to reveal its possibilities

1:01:02 What’s driving the desire to experience a mystical state? Fear of the Void?

1:06:38 Does fullness negate emptiness?

1:06:55 Christianity’s emphasis on the value of the individual consciousness or soul versus the East

1:08:11 The individualized logos of the soul

1:10:10 Defining fundamentalism

1:15:00 Is Brendan a Fullness fundamentalist?

1:19:35 A. H. Almaas and The Diamond Approach

1:20:00 Inquiry: the central practice of the Diamond Approach

1:21:43 Four turnings of the teaching of the Diamond Approach

1:21:50 Non-duality in the DA: the five boundless dimensions

1:23:23 Having a predilection or preference for particular mystical experiences

1:28:24 First turning of the Diamond Approach teaching: the individual consciousness, soul, Essential identity

1:33:32 Formation of the ego/personality, metabolization of ego structures, The Pearl Beyond Price (personal Essence)

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