#jules evans

[underwater-thing]

When we go beyond the ego what spirit or god do we encounter?

Jules Evans

[bradfordart]

In the first episode of 'Decoding Culture', Alexander Beiner is joined by Jonathan Pageau and Jules Evans to discuss whether we're witnessing the birth of major new religions in 2020. In a three way conversation, we try to make sense of cultural phenomena like Wokeism and Conspirituality to figure out whether they're historical blips, new forms of religious worship, or something else entirely.   Jules Evans is the bestselling author of 'Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations' and has recently popularised the term 'Conspirituality' to explain the strange union of new age and far right ideas in 2020. Find him on https://www.philosophyforlife.org/   Jonathan Pageau is the host of 'The Symbolic World', a popular YouTube channel in which he explores symbolism in religion, art as well as in general and popular culture. You can find him on https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau

[sensiblephilosophy]

The revival of Stoicism, Jules Evans

[dk-thrive]

I stood still, filled with a strange peace and joy

Here is entry number 208: ‘I was out walking one night in busy streets of Glasgow when, with slow majesty, at a corner where the pedestrians were hurrying by and the city traffic was hurtling on its way, the air was filled with heavenly music, and an all-encompassing light, that moved in waves of luminous colour, outshone the brightness of the lighted streets. I stood still, filled with a strange peace and joy … until I found myself in the everyday world again with a strange access of gladness and of love...

Psychologists and psychiatrists are moving from their traditional hostility to ecstasy to an understanding that it’s often good for us. Much of our personality is made up of attitudes that are usually subconscious. We drag around buried trauma, guilt, feelings of low self-worth. In moments of ecstasy, the threshold of consciousness is lowered, people encounter these subconscious attitudes, and are able to step outside of them. They can feel a deep sense of love for themselves and others, which can heal them at a deep level. Maybe this is just an opening to the subconscious, maybe it’s a connection to a higher dimension of spirit – we don’t know…Ultimately, there’s something in us that calls to us, that pulls us out the door. Let’s find out where it leads.

~ Jules Evans, Religion has no monopoly on transcendent experience (Aeon Essays, June 26, 2017)

[davidhudson]

"Bowie, then, was a genius of the [Frederic] Myers-type—able to live on that jagged edge between the subliminal and supraliminal. But is this model of genius too individualistic? Are we indulging the Romantic myth of the solitary genius alone in his garrett, like the figure on the cover of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or which Bowie seemed to nod to in his final video for Lazarus? There is another, more collaborative, model of genius, which Bowie’s ‘soul-mate’ Brian Eno has outlined, called ‘scenius.’ This refers to ‘the talent of the whole community’—Florence in the Renaissance, British pop culture in the last half-century—when ‘new ideas are articulated by individuals but generated by the whole community.’"

Jules Evans.

[things-in-our-control-blog]

I believe that schools, universities, and adult education should offer some guidance to people, nor just for their careers, but for life at its best and worst. That's what the teachers depicted in 'The School of Athens' once provided: they taught their students how to transform their emotions, how to cope with adversity, how to live the best possible lives.

Jules Evans, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems

[feverfuckery]

[anetteva]