Bonus Sample: Reimagining the Apocalypse

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Apocalyptic language is everywhere: in the marketing copy of wellness influencers and pseudo-documentary makers selling spike protein detoxes and vaccine fear-mongering videos, and in the fervent anti-trans panic stoked by right-wing Substackers. How we use language — and we use that how language to inspire actions — is everything. Derek imagines a better use of language, and of understanding, through the lens modern secular Buddhism. Show Notes The World-Ending Fire — Wendell Berry A Paradise Built in Hell — Rebecca Solnit After Buddhism — Stephen Batchelor Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism — Alan Watts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	My questions do not aspire beyond the earth.
0:36.0	They aspire toward it and into it.
0:39.0	Perhaps they aspire through it.
0:42.0	They are religious because they are asked at the limit of what I know.
0:46.0	They acknowledge mystery and honor its presence in the creation.
0:50.0	They are spoken in reverence for the order and grace that I see
0:54.0	and that I trust beyond my power to see.
0:58.0	That's Wendell Berry.
1:00.0	It's from an essay that he wrote in 1968 called Native Hill.
1:06.0	Shortly before these exceptional sentences,
1:10.0	Berry writes that it doesn't like the term religion, or much of the concept itself.
1:15.0	But he also recognizes that the English language hasn't created the right words
1:20.0	to express the feelings he has when walking around his native Kentucky.
1:24.0	Though he fled to New York City to make it as a writer in the early 60s,
1:29.0	he returned to his homeland.
1:32.0	He said the land was calling him.
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