What’s ahead for spirituality in the West?
What happens to us after we die?
Is reality real?
Are stories real?
What is reality anyway?
What is Buddhist emptiness?
What is Direct Heart-Opened Experience?
Are “magic mushrooms” an opening to transcendence?
Is there a suprapersonal God?
Jordan Bates and I answer those questions and more…
Just kidding! We don’t answer them, but we have fun dancing around them (and more) in this 55-minute video. We hope you have fun watching it.
Jordan’s Substack is Future of Wisdom, and his most recent book is God's Love: Medicine From the Ever Innocent Heart.
And a quick note: Buddhism is non-theistic but not anti-theistic. I don’t tend to use the G word, but when others do, I think of it as the interconnectedness of the Buddha's Nature within every being.
I’ve started a thread in Substack Chat on post-religion. It’s open to all From the Pure Land subscribers.
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This is one of my all-time favorites. I’ve used it as a musical bonus before, and no doubt I will again.
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