“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead
I had a wonderful conversation with Ilia Delio and Gabbi Sloan a few weeks ago, Part 1 of which was just released here. We discuss a number of topics, including the problem of evil. Part 2 continues the conversation here.
The podcast comes out of Dr. Delio’s work with the Center for Christogenesis. She has a great line up of prior episodes with guests including David Sloan Wilson and Bruce Damer.
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Matt, I responded to your conversation with Iain McGilchrist. It was wonderful. Thank you. I have listened to both of these podcasts, and they are equally of great value. My ears pricked up particularly, when you spoke about answers lying in learning.
This morning I was reading your 2012(?) post about thinking with Steiner. Beautiful. Imagine. If we could all do that! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sustainable-schooling-nathalie-bethesda/
That ‘God needs us’, that ‘God is incomplete without our participation’, that ‘God is longing for ccompletion’ , that ‘God needs the human being to reconcile the light and the dark’. . . that these notions are ‘radical’ . . . is just screaming out for this dialogue to include a voice steeped deeply in Jewish mysticism (and core Kabbalistic principles of God as Ein Sof, of Creation as a Tzimtzum process (which Idel posits as the ontic-pre-ontological basis for evil), the role of Mitzvot and even on marriage in the reconciliation process, the bidirectional nature of ‘angels’ in the depth-process-framing of Souls), . . .
That ‘God needs us’, that ‘God is incomplete without our participation’, that ‘God is longing for ccompletion’ , that ‘God needs the human being to reconcile the light and the dark’. . . that these notions are ‘radical’ . . . is just screaming out for this dialogue to include a voice steeped deeply in Jewish mysticism (and core Kabbalistic principles of God as Ein Sof, of Creation as a Tzimtzum process (which Idel posits as the ontic-pre-ontological basis for evil), the role of Mitzvot and even on marriage in the reconciliation process, the bidirectional nature of ‘angels’ in the depth-process-framing of Souls), . . .
Footnotes2Plato 
What do you think?