{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64b67f06cabfcd001157fca8/684f2cebee64da20d587f911?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Alexander Bard part 4","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64b67f06cabfcd001157fca8/1750019247667-b6a39900-6984-4cf0-b441-eea5a728ef56.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My fourth conversation with the philosopher Alexander Bard, on his new book project on mysticism, bliss, the importance of phenomenology, the philosophy of time, transcendence, and transformation.</p><p><br></p><p>Related episodes:</p><p>https://youtu.be/Y8cuqy6y0fo Alexander Bard part 1: sex, Zoroastrianism, embodied philosophy</p><p>https://youtu.be/eASbv9WA-TQ Alexander Bard part 2: tantric sex, sex and spirituality, men's work</p><p>https://youtu.be/3eAwktR3S3s Alexander Bard part 3: anthropology and AI</p><p><br></p><p>Bard on Sweeney, discussing the book project on mysticism</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFU0ot5daog</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtaDAqbAE3A</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlQyzDwTfo</p><p><br></p><p>00:00:00 Intro: making philosophy.</p><p>00:03:33 Why mysticism? Transcendence and transformation. The philosophy of time.</p><p>00:14:53 The right order: phenomenology -&gt; epistemology -&gt; ontology of mysticism. Pathos-mythos-logos and subconscious/conscious. Only present exists. The past subsists and the future absists. The past is determinate, the future is indeterminate, the present is transdeterminate.</p><p>00:26:08 Animal philosophy.</p><p>00:28:51 Phenomenology of mysticism. Dancing myself unconscious. Varayana Buddhism. The two subjectless extreme states: pure experience and the infinite now. You can't do science of consciousness. </p><p>00:37:47 The historical and sociological context: pillar saints and boy pharaohs, sutra/tantra. The infinite now and orgasm. </p><p>00:49:41 Pure experience and the other-world dualism. The psychoanalytical view: neurosis and psychosis. Mamilla and embodiment.</p><p>01:01:24 Mysticism is minimalism. The job of philosophy to kill axioms. Mysticism is practiced philosophy. Mysticism kills fantasies about how the world works. The importance of integration.</p><p>01:09:42 The problem with western existentialism is that it assumes the subject is constant.</p><p>01:10:17 Why go mystic? Why you? Why now? How? The birth of a child: instant bliss. Go deeper?</p><p>01:14:22 The first thing the mystic says: there is no purpose to this. The phenomenology-epistemology loop has been ignored by philosophers.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>I, scientist blog: https://balazskegl.substack.com</p><p>Twitter: https://twitter.com/balazskegl</p><p>Artwork: DALL-E</p><p>Music: Bea Palya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBDp3qcFZdU1yoWIRpMSaZw</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Balazs Kegl"}