Podcasts about western enlightenment

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Enlightenment is finding your true self, finding your own essence right here. It is not about finding somebody else and it is not about becoming someone else, it has all to do with you and your own self. It has all to do with overcoming and transcending inner limitations, suppressions, and conditioning of belief systems, identities, and consciousness limiting energy fields. Once these belief systems and identifications are cleared, what is left is your natural essence, pure and boundless own Awareness. Sat Mindo Damalis is an enlightened spiritual teacher helping others to reach Non-Duality, Enlightenment and Full Consciousness. Mindo has helped over 550 people to raise their Levels of Consciousness and has helped them to discover their Highest True Potential, Freedom and Power! www.newhumanitylife.com www.galacticacademy.org

Many of us believe that the culture we live in mirrors innate human nature. But today's dominant cultures of competitive destructive detachment are rare and recent. Nearly every other culture that has ever existed during our species history over millions of years has been one of connected cooperative companionship. We evolved in cooperative bands of kin and nonkin where we were nurtured and welcomed by all members of the community. We lived together, we gathered food together, we sang together, and we danced together. We knew it would have been impossible to survive on our own. But together, we thrived. Today, we are living in a culture that goes against everything it means to be human. Our culture emphasizes toughness over tenderness, isolation instead of togetherness, even for babies. As a result, we are depressed, anxious, chronically ill, and at the bottom of every international indicator for health. We are stuck in a Cycle of Competitive Detachment where we feel disconnected from others and even ourselves, while at the same time feeling we have to compete for anything worthwhile. There is a way, not only to break this cycle, but to create a new cycle, one that reclaims our humanity and helps us heal ourselves and our culture. We can create a cycle of connected, cooperative companionship. To heal ourselves and our world, we simply must return to this way of nurturing children and communities. And today's guest TEACHES how to restore the Cycles of Connected, Cooperative Companionship. Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame, who has written extensively on issues of character, moral development and human flourishing and whose work encompasses the neurology of moral development, as well as the study of evolved parenting practices. Narvaez is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Amongst other, she is the author of the books Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, and Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth. She is also the founder of https://evolvednest.org, an online platform dedicated to restore human nature to its cooperative orientation, its original and "normal" human heritage. In this episode with Dr. Darcia Narvaez, you'll discover: -A bit of Dr. Darcia's backstory...05:16 -A brief history of humanity, and where things went wrong...08:15 -How the "Western Enlightenment" has shaped the world as we know it...12:55 -Break the cycle of dis-ease with the "Evolved Nest"...17:50 -How to nourish underdevelopment in the brain from childhood hardships...31:53 -Nurturing a sense of "mattering" as a means of thriving in life...37:27 -Connecting with the "one mind" on a deep level...44:02 -Rites of passage have tragically gone by the wayside in modern society...47:20 -How to encourage healing in adults who have experienced trauma in the past...50:15 -A practice Dr. Darcia relies on for success in life...59:40 -And much more... Resources mentioned: https://evolvednest.org (Evolved Nest website) https://darcianarvaez.com (Dr. Darcia's personal website) https://www.amazon.com/Restoring-Kinship-Worldview-Indigenous-Rebalancing-ebook/dp/B09986QHZK/ (Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth) https://www.amazon.com/Neurobiology-Development-Human-Morality-Interpersonal-ebook-dp-B00FQUDQH8/dp/B00FQUDQH8/ (Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom) Guest's social handles: https://www.facebook.com/EvolvedNest/ (Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcia-narvaez-26a25815/ (LinkedIn)

In this episode, I sit down with Rhyen Staley, a former teacher and coach, turned researcher with Parents Defending Ed. to discuss his findings about ethnic studies, or more specifically “Liberated Ethnic Studies,” which is not your mom or dad's “Multicultural” education at all.Sadly, it, like so many allegedly “must-have,” DEI-focused curricula, is just another way for activists to infuse the K12 curriculum with Marxist ideology.Rhyen explains how the concept of “Radical Love,” from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, takes the word “love” itself, and turns it upside down, and inside out. With this concept, Freire takes the traditional Marxist dogma that self-sacrifice is an obligation, and connects it to liberation. Therefore, it is impossible to “love” unless you are fighting for the liberation of “marginalized people.” The problem is, his definition of “liberation,” as Rhyan explains, simply means “free from all traditional norms and societal expectations,” especially those we value (even treasure) from the Western Enlightenment.Rhyen has written about this himself on his Substack in his article entitled The NEA, Ethnic Studies, and Socialism, and I highly recommend reading his full report too as a companion to this show.My goal is to help Rhyen, and others like him, disseminate this information to people who may still be stuck on CRT (or what James Lindsay more accurately calls ‘Race Marxism'), because ultimately we have to realize how intentional the effort is to subvert, and rewrite our cultural mores and values, for the purpose of (quite literally), rewriting (or eliminating altogether) our Constitutional principles. You can follow Rhyen on Twitter @DunedainRanger9Here on Substack at The ReconnaissanceAlso check out past interviews with Rhyen on The Reason We Learn about What Your Kids are Not Learning in School, and The Lessons We Teach When We Don't Discipline in Schools.2:21 Acknowledging the contributions of the Jewish Community.4:22 In there own words: what is “Liberated Ethnic Studies?”6:58 Translating the vocabulary of Marxist Educators.10:40 Paulo Freire's “Radical Love.”17:11 Why the word “Groomer” is accurate.22:00 Challenging “hegemony,” and redefining “normalcy.”32:45 Ascent of the “Freirians.”46:00 Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Freire and Fromm.58:00 How reality gets labeled “conspiracy.”1:20:00 “Submit, or else…” The religious overtones of Liberation Ethnic Studies.1:35:25 Real world application: analyzing “The Slap” through a Freirian lens.Interested in learning more about alternatives to institutional K12 education, and want to get more direct interaction with other people who are? Join The Reason We Learn Locals Community!Try Subscriber features for one month FREE using code SUBSTACK Get full access to The Reason We Learn at thereasonwelearn.substack.com/subscribe

Having held conversations about Human Rights in several previous Think Again programs, we now propose to widen our purview, wondering whether other species and things might have 'rights' as well...'Western Enlightenment' thinking has located the 'me' and the human - the 'Anthropos' - right in the centre of all there is, everything and everybody else... the 'other'... Jacques talks about a more recent 'awakening' to the rights of nature, especially in light of the destruction humans continue to inflict on all other species-persons and things in the ecology they are part of.He invites listeners to start dipping into 'posthuman' thinking, trying to 'think' humans out of the centre of everything, reflecting on the fact that we are so relationally connected with what we destroy mindlessly that we may make life on mother earth quite impossible for humans.Refs:Burdon, Peter (ed.) (2011) Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence Kent Town (Adelaide - SA): Wakefield PressAustralian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) www.earthlaws.org.auNew Economy Network Australia (NENA) https://www.neweconomy.org.au/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/16/new-zealand-river-granted-same-legal-rights-as-human-beingKimmerer, Robin Wall (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants Minneapolis: Milkweed PublicationsStone, C (1972) “Should Trees Have Standing – Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects” in 45 S. Cal Law Rev. 450 Stone, C (2010) Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University PressBraidotti, R (2014) The Posthuman Cambridge: Polity Press

The IEA hosted Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, for a private IEA Book Club webinar on his latest book “Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance”. This event took place on Monday 17th May, and was chaired by Lord Syed Kamall, IEA Acting Academic and Research Director. In his latest book, Mustafa both diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment ― freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science ― had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favour of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. This book borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future. Support the IEA on Patreon, where we give you the opportunity to directly help us continue producing stimulating and educational online content, whilst subscribing to exclusive IEA perks, benefits and priority access to our content https://www.patreon.com/iealondon   FOLLOW US: TWITTER - https://twitter.com/iealondon INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/ieauk/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/ieauk WEBSITE - https://iea.org.uk/

Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, Mustafa Aykol reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment ― freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science ― had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join us for a virtual discussion with Mustafa Akyol, who takes us on a fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, and argues that the next "Islamic Enlightenment" may be on the horizon. Akyol diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he says Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He demonstrates how values often associated with the Western Enlightenment―freedom, reason, tolerance and an appreciation of science―had Islamic ancestors that were cast aside, for political reasons, in favor of more dogmatic views. Akyol borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers, such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to show how they shared a strikingly modern worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future. MLF ORGANIZER George Hammond NOTES MLF: Humanities SPEAKERS Mustafa Akyol Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times; Author, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom and Tolerance In Conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on April 8th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for a virtual discussion with Mustafa Akyol, who takes us on a fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, and argues that the next "Islamic Enlightenment" may be on the horizon. Akyol diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he says Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He demonstrates how values often associated with the Western Enlightenment―freedom, reason, tolerance and an appreciation of science―had Islamic ancestors that were cast aside, for political reasons, in favor of more dogmatic views. Akyol borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers, such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to show how they shared a strikingly modern worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future. MLF ORGANIZER George Hammond NOTES MLF: Humanities SPEAKERS Mustafa Akyol Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times; Author, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom and Tolerance In Conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on April 8th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does prosperity depend on discipline, rational planning, and strict adherence to scientific principles? Or is it more about having an "ambidextrous frame of mind"? Professor Peter Murphy joins us this week to discuss his book The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures. Prof. Murphy talks to us about the paradoxes that shape our daily lives. Anyone who has ever been asked to "do more with less" or engage in "creative destruction" has had to embrace paradox to promote productivity. But is it really that easy? On Liberty host, Salvatore Babones will be asking Prof. Murphy about his uniquely metaphysical understanding of the modern economy. Why isn't the Western Enlightenment heritage good enough to drive growth? Is irony really an important economic asset? How rare is real creativity, and where does it come from? And most importantly of all: where are we going from here? Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University and Adjunct Professor at the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. His book The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures is available at: https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Economy-of-Prosperity-Successful-Societies-and-Productive/Murphy/p/book/9781138581258

How is the concept of mnidoo related to the Seven Generation Principle, which states that we must consider the impact of every action we take on the next seven generations? Western Enlightenment-inspired ontology (way of being and knowing the world) has established - and continues to advance - the logic and common sense of enslavement, colonial extraction of wealth, dispossession, genocide of indigenous peoples, subjugation of women, attempted eradication of disabled people, etc. In contrast, a mnidoo-infused world is one where we conceive of everything (including humans and beyond-humans) as alive, interconnected, and mattering. Although not a methodology in itself, mnidoo relationality can inform other methodologies. Living according to the mnidoo worldview would have a great impact on our world, such as our ethical considerations about property ownership, the distribution of wealth, care for children, the status of and care for the elderly, and the way disability is understood. Read all the talk insights here. https://www.urgentemergent.org/talking-uncertainty/mnidoo-worlding --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talkinguncertainty/message

Mark 1:29-39 (NIV) On Saturday morning my wife made pancakes. The instructions say to take two bowls—the first for the dry ingredients and the second for the wet. You make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients in, mixing slowly until it's all one thing. Strangely, it reminded me of where we're at in Mark's gospel. As Jesus arrives on the scene and begins to speak truth to the religious folks and cast out demons, heaven is kind of being poured and mixed into earth. The kingdom of God is working its way into the world, usurping and displacing the kingdoms of darkness. But for a few minutes, let's try to take off our Western Enlightenment lenses. Jesus miraculous signs aren't supernatural strictly speaking, their indeed more natural than the world we know. The point is that it's actually quite unnatural for heaven and earth to be separate planes, Jesus is setting things right. As you listen to the passage today (and throughout this series), look for that overlap. Use your imagination to put your feet on the ground, so to speak. What do you see? Hear? Smell? Taste? Feel? How is the reign of a different kingdom working its way into those places? ----------REFLECT---------- What details brought the passage to life for you? What stood out? Apparently even Jesus needed some “introvert time” with his Father. In what ways do you need to find that space for yourself? In what ways do you need to be sensitive to helping others have that kind of space? Take a minute to think back over 2020. We know it was rough. But in all the chaos, fear and uprooting of our lives, where did you see God at work? ----------GO DEEPER---------- Bible Project: Mark Overview >> Bible Project: The Gospel >> Bible Project: Gospel of the Kingdom >> ----------CONNECT---------- Find an InterVarsity Chapter >> Start an InterVarsity Chapter >> Learn More >> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailyread/message

What does it mean to think of comparative education beyond the human? Is our field based on assumptions of individual autonomy and Western Enlightenment thinking that sees time as linear and progress as possible? Does a “posthuman future” hold new possibilities for our research? And can our field live with such dissonance? Earlier this month, the Post Foundational Approaches to Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society organized a webinar entitled “Exploring education beyond the human” to think through some of these questions. The webinar brought together Weili Zhao, Stephen Carney, and Iveta Silova. I moderated the discussion, which explored what education beyond the human would actual look like and entail. In this special addition of FreshEd, I’m going to replay our conversation because I think the ideas discussed push our field in new and important directions. www.freshedpodcast.com/beyondhuman Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Could the Western Enlightenment have happened without Christianity? Did it happen despite Christianity?

This week, the 'boys' of post Cartesian rationalism are back in town! Watch with envy as the cool kids, Spinoza and Leibniz, click their way menacingly down the main street of Western Enlightenment pushing the clergy off the pavement. Listen, or don’t listen, it doesn’t much matter it’s all the same either way, as you, yes you! are awarded the title of “A bit of god” (Pantheism is an equal opportunities employer). Does this make you feel good? Does pantheism (everything is god) answer the problems of monotheism (god is an old man in the sky) but is it less fun than polytheism (god is a flock of parrots in the sky)? Remember you are me and they are you and we are all together - resistance is futile guys, just go with it.

This week - Narrative, What Narrative? The story of a personal philosophical quest to found a moral basis for society. Through the eyes of Descartes and Hume, our world view is seen as failing to describe the conditions required for a moral framework. This leads to our current parallel zeitgeist of despair and denial as described by Nietzsche as the inevitable consequence of the Enlightenment project. It is seen to prove itself nothing more than an alternative to the God we killed with Western Enlightenment, to religion, and both are likened to stories, similar to many others in the grand scheme of things. Economics, Environment, Capital. It matters not if the stories are true, only that they provide social cohesion, through the twin evolutionary drivers of social group belonging and linguistic sophistication. This episode introduces the idea that these stories are fundamental to the way we think, and to the way we behave, but also explains how they are at the beck and call of our use of language. And therefore each and every one of us. There is hope in that we control the narrative. We need only decide on what it must do for us.

Legal historian John Witte, Jr. discusses why the positivist view of law has become less compelling. Like his mentor, the late Harold Berman, Witte argues that the key to understanding Western law lies in identifying the rich, early Western dialogue between religious and secular institutions; and it requires an understanding of the ways in which legal authority shifted between church and state throughout history. Similarly, Witte argues that because legal jurisdiction in various matters has shifted from the church to the state, religious presuppositions are still a part of the vocabulary Westerners have always used to define the meaning and limits of the law. If Witte’s formulation is correct, then the consistency of the Western legal system relies upon this strong interplay between secular and religious insights; the prevailing view since the Western Enlightenment, that laws can be described in purely “secular” terms, has had the effect of unravelling the substance of the Western legal tapestry originally woven from threads of secular and religious thought.