What is up, nerds? This is Tripp. And today on the podcast, philosopher. Longtime friend in my head, Simon Critchley. He's got a brand new book called mysticism. Say what? Trip, how is someone who's a philosophical critic of, you know, theism, normal religion, thinking about faith for the...

Those outside...

Like, how in the world did Critchley write a book on mysticism?

Well, that's what I thought.

Did I read it?

And it was freaking awesome.

He spoke the historical reflection.

It's a profound challenge to theists and atheists alike.

It is an invitation to a part of human experience, a dynamic encounter with reality that we often label and dismiss in our reductive, flattened modern times, and Simon Critchley and I have a blast talking about his book.

You can't get to hear about some William James, some Hildegard, some Heidegger, and, you know, you know, I think you're going to

listen to this and go, Tripp, I want to go check this brain new book out, and it is totally worth

reading.

Anyway, I love getting the talk to Dr. Critchley.

Been a longtime fan on the page.

Let's just say the conversation kept up and exceeded my lofty expectations.

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Mysticism. Check out the book. brand new Simon Critchley. Enjoy.

Well, hello, everyone. This is Tripp, and I am joined today by Simon Critchley, author of a brand new book, Mysticism.

And for those of you that have followed his work, it is quite the Critchley take, where you take a phenomenon of mysticism and you use both its history and the way it's taken new forms in a modern context

to really unpack what it is revealing about the human experience. So I absolutely loved it.

I would like to hear the origin story of the book. Like it was that you're at a fascination and interest and mysticism as a modern category,

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