How to follow your daimon

In this session we discussed:

• How to follow your daimon,
  • (and how even to ignore it can be a moral and heroic life)
• The biggest misunderstandings about Spinoza: pantheism vs panentheism = Nature is god, but god is more than nature.
• How to transform intellectual recognition into lived realisation
• The importance of remembering you are a monkey
• Why we should pay attention to the magic show
• Atheist spirituality

I particularly liked how Bernardo clarified that transcendence only transcends concepts, not being.

Did you have a favorite moment or realisation? Feel free to comment below, email me, or share on telegram!

Recordings, audio and transcript below:

Timestamps

0:00:00 Spirituality and following your daimon
0:05:08 Is analytic idealism theistic or atheistic?
0:10:35 Why our philosophy cannot contain every truth
0:15:00 What introspection adds to metaphysics
0:20:23 The comfort of mysteries still unexplored
0:25:26 Spacetime as the mind’s filing system
0:30:12 After recognising the one, why study the many?
0:35:03 What illusions reveal about reality
0:45:14 Why understanding can take seconds—and living it years
0:50:07 Suffering without the added why me?
1:05:28 Knowing it is a game can deepen the experience
1:15:23 Why keep calling us monkeys?
1:25:04 Playing your part without controlling the outcome
1:30:39 What does transcendence actually transcend?
1:35:09 Can consciousness know itself without any experience?
1:40:00 God, nature and the limits of the image
1:50:05 Have your survival strategies hidden your calling?
1:55:01 Recognising what nature wants to do through you
2:00:03 Your calling need not be one thing forever
2:05:26 The daimon’s call: meaning without comfort