356 - Dr. Nathan Jacobs - Embrace Realism: It's All Mystical!

Dr. Nathan Jacobs is an academic, artist, and filmmaker. In this conversation, we discuss where reason, rationality, and discernment fit into the mystical experience and how the modern world has mistakenly divorced reason and mysticism.

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/BlB1EkTaxpg

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Coming up
01:46 - Intro music
02:10 - Introduction
03:09 - What's happening?
13:12 - Intuitions and tangibility
17:30 - The synopsis
21:25 - A cognitive minority
24:58 - Joe Rogan and the pre-rational
27:30 - Transpersonal agency
31:02 - Everybody believes in ghosts
39:56 - The question of realism
45:52 - The Mind
50:42 - Overcoming skepticism
56:07 - The Son of Man
01:00:24 - Naming
01:03:57 - The focal point of man
01:17:49 - The Nathan Jacobs Podcast

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My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.