Jonathan Pageau: Why We Were Wrong About the Purpose of Religion
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 196 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's fantastic to speak with you again. I think we only met up in person twice. Is that correct? Once I went to my house once. Yes. Before my house was flooded. And so it's crazy because I saw the video and I was like, wow, that was before my house. Now I live in the same house completely different because we had to rebuild it. But then we saw each other at arc last year. Well, speaking about arcs and floods, huh? Okay. Yeah, arcs and floods. There you go. Let's get to your channel's name. It's called The Symbolic World. I want to know you have surely toyed with other titles in your mind. What was a contender? And why did this one win out? Well, there were two reasons, |
| 0:39.3 | really was, it's this understanding the title in both ways that you can understand it. One is, |
| 0:45.6 | you know, we're going to talk about symbolism, you know, and so it's trying to help people see |
| 0:50.2 | differently, see through the eyes of symbolism, but also because when I talk about symbolism, |
| 0:56.4 | I'm not talking about metaphor in the way that a lot of people tend to think about it, or just |
| 1:00.1 | maybe psychic projections, even the way that Jung talked about it, but I'm talking about structural |
| 1:05.0 | questions. So symbolic world also means that I'm implying that the world lays itself out through |
| 1:10.6 | meaning, and without meaning, you can't avoid it. So it's kind of in those I'm implying that the world lays itself out through meaning, |
| 1:11.1 | and without meaning, you can't avoid it. |
| 1:12.7 | So it's kind of in those both. |
| 1:14.1 | I thought that the title had a good way of exploring both of those aspects, right? |
| 1:18.8 | So symbolism, but also the fact that the world is symbolic. |
| 1:23.4 | Now, do you say the world is symbolic or reality is symbolic? |
| 1:27.1 | What would be the difference between those two? |
| 1:29.1 | You could say, I like the world in the sense of cosmos. |
| 1:32.3 | The idea of cosmos, the ancient idea of cosmos is something like the ordered world. |
| 1:36.8 | The idea that the world lays itself out as a kind of, as a balanced order that has harmonies in it. |
| 1:42.5 | And that's the way that I understand it, |
| 1:45.5 | that the world that we live in has these harmonies as part of it. |
| 1:51.1 | And so you could say it, you could say it either way. |
| 1:53.7 | In this way, I like it because it's more embodied to say world. |
| 1:58.2 | How do you see the world differently than most people? |
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