The Experience of Being Alive, Episode 382
Is our primary task in our lives to pursue meaning? Or is it first to learn how to be in ever more contact with our lives - to actually experience what happens inside us and outside us and bring the two into relationship with one another? It might well be the case that until we’re doing that, it’s very hard for us to be sensitive enough to our lives to even know if meaning is coming our way.
A conversation about meaning, purpose, and the experience of life, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
Episode Overview
00:00 Introduction to Turning Towards Life
02:59 Exploring Joseph Campbell's Perspective on Life
10:08 The Experience of Being Alive
17:48 Intimacy Between Inner and Outer Worlds
27:59 Conclusion and Reflection on Aliveness
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Here’s our source for this week:
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth