The Two Tongues Podcast

S3E35 - Living Symbols, Christ and Psychology

This is part 2 in the "Return to Edinger" series where we discuss his book Ego and Archetype. In this one, we discuss the difference between 'signs' and 'symbols' in order to understand what an 'Archetype' is. With this accomplished, we go on to show how Jesus' words from the Gospels can be understood psychologically...and how Jesus himself can be understood as an Archetype.

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S3E34 - Bollingen Stone Mystery

In this episode Chris discusses a mysterious stone monument that was erected in Zurich, Switzerland with strange and cryptic inscriptions carved into it. While older, this monument shares several features in common with another mysterious monument called the Georgia Guidestones. Both contain strange messages, written in both ancient and modern languages. So what makes the Bollingen Stone special? It was designed and erected by the great mystic of our modern age--Dr. Carl Jung! What does it say? What does it mean? Let's find out together.

 

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S3E33 - Ego and Archetype - Return to Edinger

As the title suggests, we're returning to Edward Edinger for this episode, exploring his book "Ego & Archetype." We explore natural psychological development and how the stages of development influence our understanding of God and its expression in religion and myth. We explore the possibility of encountering the "Self," the fullness of our psyche above and beyond just the ego and in so doing encounter God for the first time consciously. 

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S3E32 - Hume on Natural Religion

In this episode Chris brings us Opinion Scholarship on the philosopher David Hume thorough his "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion". Just as Hume famously asked "can we derive an ought from an is?" here he asks: Is there anything about the facts of the world that can tell us anything about God? Does God exist? If so, how? What does God want? Does it want anything? Etcetera and so on. In exploring this question, God is conceptualized as the God of Monotheism, of Pantheism, of Idealism and even of Panpsychism. 

(Forgive the crying child in the background during my conclusion monologue. This podcast is unedited for authenticity, but authenticity has a price from time to time)

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S3E31 - Are We What We Do?

In this episode Chris explores 2 questions, which have been haunting him. The first: Is there a difference between what we ARE and what we Do? The second: Is there a difference between WHAT we are and WHO we are? We squeeze mysticism, theology, quantum mechanics and logic all into this 20 minute monologue. What could go wrong?

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S3E30 - Cloud of Unknowing

In this episode we bring you more Opinion Scholarship...this time on one of the primary and most mysterious works of Christian Mysticism--The Cloud of Unknowing. Its mystery comes from the fact that its author is unknown and that, while borderline heretical, it has survived in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity to this day. This work is unique in that it offers an explicitly Christian path to an explicitly unchristian goal...unity with God. The anonymous author provides a framework of meditation and contemplation that prepares one for having a mystical experience and becoming one spirit with God. This framework is suspiciously Eastern, calling for deep meditation, the use of mantras and the loss of Self.

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S3E29 - Science and the Unseen World

In this episode Chris brings us more Opinion Scholarship; this time on the great Astrophysicist Arthur Eddington's lecture--Science and the Unseen World. We hear Eddington's critique of the scientific method and its insufficiencies in exploring the non-physical aspects of our reality. He provides a defense of religious experience as well as a new path for the furthering of scientific knowledge. His ultimate conclusion is, shall we say, mystical...and I love that.

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S3E28 - Beyond Theology- Unity in Sacrifice

In this episode Chris finishes off his Opinion Scholarship on Alan Watts book Beyond Theology. He focuses in on the meaning of sacrifice from a Hindu and Christian prospective, their respective religious practices and how they create two uniquely different paths to spiritual awakening. In the end, Alan Watts proposes a new interpretation of Christianity, which embraces the internal spiritual practices of the Hindu with the external transformation of the world required by the Christian path; both coming together to facilitate the revelation of ego death and at-one-ment.

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S3E27 - Beyond Theology - A New Christianity

In this episode Chris brings us some Opinion Scholarship on Alan Watt's book Beyond Theology. We talk about Alan's fantasy religion, if he could invent his own, and then spend the rest of the discussion trying to reconcile Hinduism and Christianity with it. The end result is a faith that emphasizes ego death as a sacrament and offers each the realization of eternal life through the unity of self identity with God itself. 

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S3E26 - What is Thy Desire

In this episode Chris takes Alan Watts up on his suggestion to meditate upon what you most desire. In his book Beyond Theology Watts says: "I cannot conceive any better way of trying to understand myself, or human nature in general, than a thorough exploration of my desires, making them as specific as possible, and then asking myself whether that is actually what I want." And this is exactly what I've done. What do I desire? And what have I learned? Find out here.

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