Embodiment, Faith, and the Meta Crisis with JORDAN HALL | EMP Podcast 137

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Published 2024-04-04
Welcome back to the Evolve Move Play podcast!

In this episode Jordan Hall and I explore the role of embodiment in addressing the meta crisis facing humanity.

Jordan shares his background in the tech industry and the origins of the Game B project, which seeks to understand and respond to the interconnected challenges of our time. The discussion delves into the relationship between individuals and institutions, the evolution of paradigmatic thinking, and the shift from a world of rhythm to one of tone.

We examine the tension between truth-first and beauty-first approaches to reality, and how this relates to the historical relationship between science and religion. We also discuss the concept of faith as an embodied capacity, situated within a stack of communication, understanding, hope, and love.

Our conversation highlights the importance of embodied practices in developing virtue, cultivating faith, and navigating the complexities of the meta crisis. Perhaps one key to moving forward is to avoid panic and to love more deeply, emphasizing the transformative power of embodiment in personal and collective growth.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 : Jordan's Background and Game B
07:48 : Embodiment and the Meta Crisis
19:13 : Identity, Individuals, and Institutions
27:44 : Paradigmatic Mind and the Shift from Rhythm to Tone
35:56 : Truth vs. Beauty in Approaching Reality
45:35 : Faith as Embodied Capacity
54:26 : Science, Religion, and Embodiment in Education
01:10:21 : Cultivating Faith Through Embodied Practices
01:19:11 : Reconciling Science and Religion
01:27:44 : Embodied Practices, Virtue, and the Meta Crisis
1:34:36 : The Call to Love More Deeply

All Comments (18)
  • @I4MWH014M
    Thank you Jordan and Rafe for sharing a beautiful example of dialogos with us. The work on faith and embodiment is particularly relevant to me in my current circumstances. God bless
  • @Jesseraine
    Thanks very much for this Rafe. I’ve been following you and Jordan for many years and have always really appreciated the Spirit in both of you. This turning towards Christ we seem to be seeing more of is brilliantly exemplified within both of you. I didn’t realize until more recently that were cross boarder neighbours (I’m in Abbotsford). We share a common intuition about the importance of embodied physicality through sport/fitness/martial arts. It’s a piece that I think can sometime be missed in the “thinky talky” space that is “this little corner of the internet”.
  • @TheMeaningCode
    Don’t panic. Love more deeply. Perfect love drives out all fear.
  • Faith as a prerequisite to understanding is an interesting one. It's even built into the etymology; to stand below and take in something above you. Going to have to play with this one more.
  • @TheMeaningCode
    1:27:45 two partners in a marriage, who haven’t yet learned how to be beneficial adversaries. Or the left and right hemispheres of the brain, where one side has tried to dominate the other rather than learning from each other. Of course, that’s marriage again.
  • @FoodTruckEmily
    Well, I cried. What a great conversation- thank you for your vulnerability- I’ve been going through similar trauma therapy over similar thing ❤
  • @ben-sanford
    Thank you both, and thank you, Rafe, for bringing the raw Beauty of your healing journey forward in the moment. Im happy for you, keep going brother! Discussions like these are healing my experience of growing up within a fear based Christianity community. Jordan's testimony and perspective has stirred things up for me. Also, something near the beginning prompted me to see if you were familiar with Dave Snowden's notion that change happens middle>bottom>up? Take care🙏
  • @MS-od7je
    1st time observing here… in my feed… But I cannot help but note the cosmological constant in the title.
  • @matsyayoga
    Thank you for your work! Very inspiring to seeing strong people like you, making their way through the jungle of our time. I think too there is a way out, but eventually literally it must be embodied. Maybe the answer to the meta crisis is that what emerges through action rather than through intellectual contemptation about it. Sometimes real creative solutions to complicated problems arise as an experience and then make their way to the mind not the other way round. The reason could be that the world is too complicated to simulate reality in the mind, it must be acted out to compute the right pathway. Therefore simply embodiment work, dance, fight, play could create the answer beyond understanding. As a way to understand through embodiment, compute through action.