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Transcending Mindfulness #8: Crisis, Chaos & Uncertainty


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In this podcast:

  • What is the role of Chaos in spiritual development.
  • The reaction against rationalism & chaos as a creative force - Dadaism
  • The challenge of a crisis is to bring forth personal creativity to get out of it.
  • Initiation can be a deliberate attempt to create a crisis for the novice or neophyte.
  • Anxiety: the loss of control of ourselves and the environment.
  • How fictional narratives resist change & uncertainty.
  • Archetypal stories of crisis and the hand of providence.
  • What happens when we open up to chance and uncertainty?
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