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September 9, 2017
Episode 30 – The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
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Lecture 12 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series
In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar’s banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac.
To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain? There are few eternal questions more profound and difficult.
In this lecture, I read an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, now available for pre-order at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com.
I am currently making arrangements to continue this series with a monthly lecture. That will start in September at a date and time yet to be announced.
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Episode 30 – The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
9 Sep 2017
Episode 29 – Sodom and Gomorrah4 Sep 2017
Episode 28 – Abraham: Father of Nations1 Sep 2017
Episode 27 – The Call to Abraham31 Aug 2017
Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine22 Aug 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
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September 4, 2017
Episode 29 – Sodom and Gomorrah
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Lecture 11 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.
Often interpreted as an injunction against homosexuality (particularly by those simultaneously claiming identity as Christians and opposed to that orientation), the stories of the angels who visit Abraham, bless him, and then rain destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah are more truly a warning against mistreatment of the stranger and impulsive, dysregulated, sybaritic conduct.
Abraham opens his heart and hearth to the stranger. The denizens of Lot’s soon-to-be lost cities threaten them with violent rape. God exacts a terrible retribution. The warning is clear.
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Episode 30 – The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
9 Sep 2017
Episode 29 – Sodom and Gomorrah4 Sep 2017
Episode 28 – Abraham: Father of Nations1 Sep 2017
Episode 27 – The Call to Abraham31 Aug 2017
Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine22 Aug 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
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Episode 29 – Sodom and Gamorrah
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Lecture 11 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.
Often interpreted as an injunction against homosexuality (particularly by those simultaneously claiming identity as Christians and opposed to that orientation), the stories of the angels who visit Abraham, bless him, and then rain destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah are more truly a warning against mistreatment of the stranger and impulsive, dysregulated, sybaritic conduct.
Abraham opens his heart and hearth to the stranger. The denizens of Lot’s soon-to-be lost cities threaten them with violent rape. God exacts a terrible retribution. The warning is clear.
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Episode 29 – Sodom and Gamorrah
4 Sep 2017
Episode 28 – Abraham: Father of Nations1 Sep 2017
Episode 27 – The Call to Abraham31 Aug 2017
Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine22 Aug 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
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September 1, 2017
Episode 28 – Abraham: Father of Nations
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Lecture 10 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.
The Abrahamic adventures continue with this, the tenth lecture in my 12-part initial Biblical lecture series. Abraham’s life is presented as a series of encapsulated narratives, punctuated by sacrifice, and the rekindling of his covenant with God. This seems to reflect the pattern of human life: the journey towards a goal, or destination, and the completion of a stage or epoch of life, followed by the necessity of re-evaluation and reconsideration of identity, prior to the next step forward. Abraham, for his part, makes the sacrifices necessary to continue to walk with God, or before God (as the terminology in this section has it). It is this decision that allows him to transcend the vicissitudes of life, and to take his role as the father of nations.
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Episode 28 – Abraham: Father of Nations
1 Sep 2017
Episode 27 – The Call to Abraham31 Aug 2017
Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine22 Aug 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
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August 31, 2017
Episode 27 – The Call to Abraham
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Lecture 9 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.
In this lecture, I tell the story of Abraham, who heeds the call of God to leave what was familiar behind and to journey into unknown lands. The man portrayed in the Bible as the father of nations moves forward into the world. He encounters the worst of nature (famine), society (the tyranny of Egypt) and the envy of the powerful, who desire his wife. There is nothing easy about Abraham’s life. Instead, he is portrayed both as a real man, with serious problems, and a hero, who overcomes tremendous obstacles to establish himself in the world.
His covenant with God is an Ark. His decision to aim at the highest good he can conceptualize places an aura of magic around the events of his life, despite their harshness. He’s a model for life in the world as it is, not as we wish it would be.
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Episode 28 – Abraham: Father of Nations
1 Sep 2017
Episode 27 – The Call to Abraham31 Aug 2017
Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine22 Aug 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
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August 22, 2017
Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine
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Lecture 8 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.
In the next series of stories, the Biblical patriarch Abram (later: Abraham) enters into a covenant with God. The history of Israel proper begins with these stories. Abram heeds the call to adventure, journeys courageously away from his country and family into the foreign and unknown, encounters the disasters of nature and the tyranny of mankind and maintains his relationship with the God who has sent him forth. He becomes in this manner a light in the world, and a father of nations.
How is this all to be understood? I am attempting in this lecture to determine precisely that. How are we, as modern people, to make sense of the idea of the God who reveals himself to a personality? How can we relate the details of the Abramic stories to our own lives, in the current world? In what frame of reference can these stories be seen to make sense, and to reveal their meaning?
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Episode 26 – The Phenomenology of the Divine
22 Aug 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
Episode 13 – Maps of Meaning 10 – 1326 Mar 2017
Episode 12 – Maps of Meaning 7 – 920 Mar 2017
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August 19, 2017
Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood
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Lecture 7 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.
Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood. Mircea Eliade, the great Romanian historian of religion, noted that flood stories identify two reasons for the destruction: (1) the tendency of complex things to fall apart of their own accord; (2) the proclivity of human beings to speed up that process by sinning, or missing the mark (by engaging in self-evident corruption, or by failing to attend to what cries out for attention). The Genesis story clearly states that Noah and his family are to be spared from impending disaster because Noah “walks with God,” as Adam did before the Fall. In this lecture, the 7th in the series, I intermingle the story of Noah and his survival with elements of the Sermon on the Mount, making the effort to explain to a modern audience why careful moral attitude and behavior comprises the best defense against “the righteous anger of God.”
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Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood
19 Aug 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
Episode 13 – Maps of Meaning 10 – 1326 Mar 2017
Episode 12 – Maps of Meaning 7 – 920 Mar 2017
Episode 11 – Dr. James W. Pennebaker9 Mar 2017
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July 18, 2017
Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood
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Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series.
The story of Noah and the Ark is next in the Genesis sequence. This is a more elaborated tale than the initial creation account, or the story of Adam and Eve or Cain and Abel. However, it cannot be understood in its true depth without some investigation into what the motif of the flood means, psychologically, and an analysis of how that motif is informed by the order/chaos dichotomy, as well as by the idea of an involuntary voyage to the underworld or confrontation with the dragon. In consequence, this lecture concentrates almost exclusively on psychology: How is an encounter with the unknown to be understood, conceptually? How and why is that represented with themes such as the underworld voyage, the dragon fight, or the flood?
All that constitutes the theme of lecture VI.
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Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood
18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
Episode 13 – Maps of Meaning 10 – 1326 Mar 2017
Episode 12 – Maps of Meaning 7 – 920 Mar 2017
Episode 11 – Dr. James W. Pennebaker9 Mar 2017
Episode 10 – Maps of Meaning 4 – 66 Mar 2017
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July 4, 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers
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Bible Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers
The account of Cain and Abel is remarkable for its unique combination of brevity and depth. In a few short sentences, it outlines two diametrically opposed modes of being — both responses to the emergence of self-consciousness and the knowledge of good and evil detailed in story of Adam and Eve.
Cain’s mode of being — resentful, arrogant and murderous — arises because his sacrifices are rejected by God. This means that his attempts to give up something valuable in the present to ensure prosperity in the future are insufficient. He fails, in consequence, to thrive, as he believes he should, and becomes bitter, resentful and murderous.
Abel’s mode of being is characterized, by contrast, by proper sacrifice — by the establishment of balance between present action and future benefit. This ensures his personal and social success, accruing over time. Unfortunately, it also makes him the target of Cain’s malevolence.
This great short story is relevant personally, on the level of the family, and politically, all with equal force, all simultaneously.
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Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood
18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
Episode 13 – Maps of Meaning 10 – 1326 Mar 2017
Episode 12 – Maps of Meaning 7 – 920 Mar 2017
Episode 11 – Dr. James W. Pennebaker9 Mar 2017
Episode 10 – Maps of Meaning 4 – 66 Mar 2017
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July 1, 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death
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Lecture 4 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. I turned my attention in this lecture to the older of the two creation accounts in Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve. In its few short paragraphs, it covers:
1. the emergence of human self-consciousness;
2. mankind’s attendant realization of vulnerability, mortality, and death;
3. the origin of the capacity for willful evil, as the ability to exploit that newly-realized vulnerability;
4. the emergence of shame as a consequence of that realization;
5. the shrinking from divine destiny that occurred when shame emerged; and
6. the beginning of true history, with the self-conscious toil that life in history entails.
Impossible. Amazing. Breathtaking.
The only story that can perhaps match it in terms of impact per sentence is that of Cain and Abel, which we discuss in the next lecture: number five in this twelve part series.
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Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood
18 Jul 2017
Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers4 Jul 2017
Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death1 Jul 2017
Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority11 Jun 2017
Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief7 Jun 2017
Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order29 May 2017
Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God23 May 2017
Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly11 May 2017
Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U1 May 2017
Episode 15 – How to Change the World20 Apr 2017
Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque2 Apr 2017
Episode 13 – Maps of Meaning 10 – 1326 Mar 2017
Episode 12 – Maps of Meaning 7 – 920 Mar 2017
Episode 11 – Dr. James W. Pennebaker9 Mar 2017
Episode 10 – Maps of Meaning 4 – 66 Mar 2017
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