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Spiritual Capital with John Featherby
Season 2, Ep. 4
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Better business genius and spiritual leader John Featherby joins us to discuss the limits to materialism, a crisis of meaning and what spirituality means in the modern world.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE
- Reaching the end of a hyper-rational, high secular materialism age - and looking at what comes next to fill the ‘void’ in realising it doesn't provide real meaning
- Exploring Spiritual Capital as a “resource of collective memory, benefit, and impact of a culture’s religious, spiritual, philosophy history and heritage” and investing in it through honouring purpose, value, virtue, and meaning in cultures
- Religion as a way of being. It’s a pattern and we’re all in one. We’re all worshipping something
- CENTRES OF POWER ARE MOVING AWAY FROM THE WEST - neutral secular perspectives that are not neutral. Parts of the world are pushing back.
- How you develop leaders - mindfulness, breathing, embracing the wilderness
- The agenda of “purpose” in business spaces & leadership programmes - and how authentic and meaningful this actually is.
QUOTES & SNIPPETS
“We’re in a meaning crisis. Spiritual Capital doesn’t ‘belong’ to big businesses. You cant import purpose, ritual, philosophical ideas etc”
“It’s a pattern and we’re all in one”
“Consumerism doesn’t provide the meaning people thought it would so they’ve gone looking for meaning in something else”
“All people have now IS their work - home - and hobby. People's lives have gone from many layers to work and home. Back in the day, people belonged to a community organisation, there were layers between the individual and the state that gave them meaning and a sense of grounding but we’ve stripped them out”
“Most of the stuff you read in these modern business books about purpose and good culture - they exist in all the great scriptures. We’ve had this stuff forever.”
REFERENCES
Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton
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