Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
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Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.
spectrevisionradio.com
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Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind
Weird Studies
1 hour 28 minutes
3 months ago
Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind
How do you become religious? What is a conversion experience? Does it happen all at once or gradually? What's the point of religion, anyway? These are questions that JF (a Catholic) and Phil (a Zennist) have often been asked since starting Weird Studies, and in this episode they attempt some answers.
Image: "Small Candle Flame" by Le Priyavrat, via Wikimedia Commons
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REFERENCES
Ross Douthat, Believe
Dogen, Shobogenzo
New Atheism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism
Weird Studies, Episode 99 on “Wild, Wild Country”
William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
George Steiner, Real Presences
Patrick Curry, Art and Enchantment
Max Picard, The Flight from God
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense
Weird Studies, Episode 183 on “Siddhartha”
Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher
Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”
Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot
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Weird Studies
Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.
spectrevisionradio.com
linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial
