One Wild Life: Body (Part 4)

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The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We've got a special series of podcasts this week exploring the themes and sounds of Gungor's new record One Wild Life: Body. This is the final album in the One Wild Life trilogy of records, and is available everywhere music is sold. Learn more at gungormusic.com.

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0:00.0	What are you?
0:09.2	You might answer that you are a body, but that's not all you are.
0:14.7	Corpse is your body.
0:17.6	Some might respond that you are the functions of your body, and not simply the form.
0:22.8	But what are the functions of the body?
0:27.7	Why do the early nerve cells and the human brain sacrifice themselves for the good of a greater whole?
0:34.4	Why does the body heal itself?
0:37.0	I don't mean what are the functions of how the body heals itself.
0:40.8	I mean, why do any of those functions exist in the first place?
0:47.0	One could answer because natural selection rewarded the life forms that developed those functions
0:52.2	with reproduction.
0:54.2	But that still doesn't get to the answer of the question down at its core.
0:59.4	Why does life reward itself like that?
1:02.0	Why the persistence to stay alive, or to be in the first place?
1:08.7	Why the unshakable determination of reality to conform to the laws that give it order?
1:16.0	Why the incredible orchestration that all things exude from in order to be?
1:23.6	What if the mystics are right?
1:26.2	What if the answer to that question is love?
1:30.5	Some may roll their eyes at that.
1:32.3	It sounds romantic and sentimental and unscientific.
1:36.4	But that's because the way our culture often uses the word love is anemic, romantic, sentimental and unscientific.
1:45.3	God is love.
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