I listened to this today on my walk, really great talk on Mysticism.
The two definitions that he gave are very good - "The Art of uniting with reality." and I would always stress his comment on it not being about escapism. I would also suggest that the process appears to be a uniting but in reality it is "unity awareness" in that you are already united, there is no where to go, no other to reach - non-duality.
I think also this stress on not escaping is important for Spirituality and Mysticism while unity awareness is key to the Critique of Modernity/Academy since 1789 which is why I suggest that in a sense we have always been 'post modern' though I would phrase it as - OK, so we are Modern, NOW WHAT?
The "now what" being critique and integration which is the project of Freedom for all, Democracy for all, recognition of the worth of all (women, indigenous, blacks, gays, trans), Open Society, and Multi-culturalism. Unity awareness and non-dualism also being why I am so against the Paradigm of Modern Academy/Physics (Standard Model particles, Big Bang et.al.), materialism, dualism, external God and all that brings separation; even 'woke' politics.
The Integration and Integral thinking of Meta-Modernism being so very important now more than ever.

Yet again another great Podcast, thank you for your work.

Timothy Rollin Pickerill
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:39 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

The YouTube link: https://youtu.be/V2w6owtVRcM

 

Episode 24: UTOKing with Zevi Slavin                                                       August 30, 2021

Title: The Art of Uniting with Reality                                                                        

In Episode 24, Gregg welcomes the scholar Zevi Slavin. Zevi grew up in an Orthodox, Jewish, Hasidic family and discovered that other religions had mystical traditions that he found to be amazingly similar to his tradition. He began to share his teachings on the YouTube Channel Seekers of Unity. Gregg first heard about him through John Vervaeke, and he joined Zevi for a conversation on his journey (here). Zevi returns the favor and the two demonstrate the remarkable correspondence between the mystical tradition as Zevi understands it and the knowledge into wisdom path that emerges via UTOK.

Here is a 10 minute clip on the nature of mysticism. Here is the podcast on podbean. 

Here is Zevi's YouTube channel, Seekers of Unity.

 

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