275 - Michael Legaspi - Subjectivity and the Psalms

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Dr. Michael Legaspi is an Associate Professor of the Old Testament at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. In this discussion, we explore the Psalms and the question of subjectivity, perception, the soul, memory, participation, and attention. https://www.svots.edu/people/dr-michael-legaspi - Original video: https://youtu.be/nZA2XLjOzC4 - The Symbolic World website and blog: www.thesymbolicworld.com - Merch: www.thesymbolicworld.store - Language of Creation, by Matthieu Pageau: www.amazon.com/Language-Creation…ook/dp/B07D738HD8 Support this podcast: - Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/ - Patreon: www.patreon.com/pageauvideos - Subscribestar: www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau - Paypal: www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Join the conversation: - Unofficial Facebook discussion group: www.facebook.com/groups/1989208418065298/ - The Symbolic World Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/TheSymbolicWorld/ Social media links: - Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld - Twitter: www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan - Instagram: www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.

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0:00.0	Let's say in the ways that the people watching this will totally understand you can't completely
0:04.5	just act as if God exists.
0:06.7	Yes, that's right.
0:08.4	Exactly.
0:09.3	Exactly.
0:10.1	As if it's going to like, you know, it's going to.
0:12.7	Yeah, it's going to act.
0:13.9	So, but that's why like I tell people that ultimately the Psalms are the good example.
0:18.9	This is that ultimately worship is the key to this,
0:21.9	right? Because worship places you in a mode where you're interacting, where you're acknowledging,
0:26.5	where you're placing yourself in relationship to God. And then that is the training, right? That's
0:32.5	the training ground which helps you exist, you know, not just make it into a mental trick, but make it into something
0:38.6	that you embody that you participate in. No, I think that's absolutely important. I think that's,
0:43.3	that is the kind of real thing, ultimately is worship, right? And this is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.
1:01.0	So hello everyone. I am very pleased to be here with Michael Legaspi, who is a professor of the Old Testament at St. Vladimir's Seminary. As you know, many of you probably know, St. Vladimir's Seminary is one of the main OCA seminaries in America. It has a very long and profound history, all the theological
1:30.6	developments of the Orthodox Church in the West. This transferred to local languages, St. Vladimir
1:36.9	has been very much involved. And so I'm really happy to be able to collaborate with them and
1:41.2	with Michael. So Michael, thanks for talking to me.
1:45.5	No, it's a pleasure to be here.
1:47.0	Jonathan, thank you for having me on this wonderful show, which has been just a wonderful
1:51.8	thing for so many of us out here in the internet sphere, I suppose.
1:56.6	So thank you very much for having me.
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