Jamie Wheal With Dr. Tara Isabella Burton - Meaning-Making

Collective Insights

Qualia Life

Alternative Health, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Our society is facing a crisis of meaning. That is the foundational message of our latest episode with Dr. Tara Isabella Burton. You may have heard of the term “nones”- people listing no religious affiliation in surveys. Dr. Burton, theologian, author and journalist, is less interested in what this group of people are leaving behind (institutional religion) than in how they are finding or making their own meaning. But what happens when we seek stabilizing, emotionally satisfying stories that give us a cosmic location and identity without accountability to a higher purpose? Could it be that if we’re seeking self-actualization and the only arbiter is our own thoughts, feelings, and desires that the result is lack of meaning and inadvertently the development of narcissistic traits? It’s a powerful question. Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neurohacker/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neurohackercollective Email: support@neurohacker.com

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0:00.0	If we are looking for self-actualization or our best lives and the only arbiter of what it is to be self-actualized or to live our best lives are our own thoughts, feelings, and desires, then we're kind of trapped in this loop of taking what we want and raising it to the level of, as you say, an ought, a should.
0:23.6	I think we lack, for many reasons, a kind of unified civic or societal sense of what we as human beings are for.
0:34.2	What are we doing?
0:35.6	And so all too often the language of self-actualization, the language of
0:40.8	finding your individual purpose, living life for you, becomes a kind of completely private endeavor
0:50.2	that's somehow held up to the level of a moral duty for us as human beings, that if we don't self-actualize, we've somehow failed.
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1:15.9	Welcome to Collective Insights. Thank you. groundbreaking approaches for a better world and a better life away you welcome to collective insights i'd love to welcome uh dr tara isabella burton the author of strange rights new religions for a godless world
1:26.4	and her upcoming book self-, which is an exploration of exactly that for the last 500 years through the Western tradition.
1:36.2	She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.
1:39.9	She was the former religion writer for Vox and is a PhD in theology from Oxford University in the UK
1:50.4	and I would say one of the freshest and most interesting voices integrating highbrow and lowbrow
1:59.2	culture.
1:59.7	So sort of both the ancient historical, classical
2:03.4	perspectives and academic scholarly perspectives with the wildest and craziest stuff like Sleep No More and
2:09.7	Soul Cycle and in-cell, you know, Reddit boards. So it's my great pleasure to welcome
2:15.6	you, Tara, to homegrown humans. Thank you so much for joining us.
2:19.0	Thank you so much for having me on.
2:21.0	I'm very excited.
2:23.1	Brilliant.
2:23.6	Well, listen, I mean, I've got a list of fun topics that I'd love to talk, you know, chat with you about.
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