Is "Spirituality" the Best We Can Do? (#413)

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Guest: Jay Michaelson (Both/And)

Topics:

Why "spirituality" makes a bad communicator (3:07)

Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and inventing God in our own image (5:04)

Psychedelics, myth-making, and religion as "proto peer review" (16:56)

The case for spirituality's broadness (32:04)

Crystals, gurus, and spotting spiritual abuse (38:07)

Peak experiences, Kierkegaard's leap of faith, and the trouble with certainty (59:07)

Previous Episode with Jay:

Rabbi and Journalist Jay Michaelson (#366)

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