Actually experiencing idealism: challenges & gifts
31st March | Q&A with Bernardo
Last week Bernardo spoke to the importance of taking many perspectives in approaching truth, integrating both Apollonian and Dionysian perspectives.
Next week, 7th April, we're joined by Iain McGilchrist, celebrated for illuminating the different ways the brain’s left and right hemispheres understand the world, and the importance of their integration.
So this week we'll start to discuss actually integrating idealism as a lived experience.
"Many of us come to Analytic Idealism through reason and philosophy", says Carrie, one of our members.
but there’s a moment when it stops being an idea and becomes a lived realization: everything I see, feel, and know is within consciousness itself.
This can be liberating — but it can also be disorienting, even destabilizing. It changes how we see the self, death, and the external world.
This is a big topic, but we'll at least make a start, taking some questions from this page, potentially some leftover from our recent conversations on archetypes and synchronicities, and on ambassadorship.
Amir Giles
More than Allegory
Continuing the move from analysis into a lived experience, we've now scheduled our session to discuss More Than Allegory. Dust off your copy or get a copy in time to read before the 14th of April:
Amir Giles
Iain McGilchrist
Finally, I recommend watching this previous dialogue between Iain McGilchrist and Bernardo before their upcoming meeting on April 7th.
I look forward to seeing you soon!
Amir
P.S. These pictures really do look like they are of the same person. Is Dionysus just Apollo after a few drinks?
Zoom Link 31st March
6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST,