Brendan Graham Dempsey & Nathen Fitchen on The Meaning Crisis & Metamodern Spirituality
Channel: Life Itself
Date: 2022-06-20

In this fourth episode of our Exploring Social Transformation series, Nathen Fitchen and Brendan Graham Dempsey discuss the rise of the meaning crisis, how it has perpetuated throughout the world and its symbiotic nature to the environmental crisis and other crises we face today. 

In addition, they unpack a potential antidote to the meaning crisis, metamodern spirituality. Through identifying the core characteristics of metamodern thinking and how one might engage in metamodern spirituality, this conversation is a perfect place to orient oneself with the metamodern ideology and to be inspired to find greater meaning individually and as a collective. 

0:00 Introduction
4:25 What is the ‘meaning crisis’?
13:05 Is the ‘meaning crisis’ a global crisis?
16:54 How does the ‘meaning crisis’ interplay with other crises?
27:16 Has the pandemic acted as a precipice within the meaning crisis?
31:28 What is metamodern spirituality? 
42:40 What does embodying metamodern spirituality look like?
52:20 How can I engage with the metamodern space?

Brendan Graham Dempsey is the author of several books, his work focusing on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He also hosts a podcast called metamodern spirituality, is a public speaker, course facilitator and has released a series of insightful videos titled after postmodernism. 

Additional resources

Brendans website - https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/

Metamodern spirituality podcast - https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/metamodern-spirituality

Facebook group - metamodern spirituality - https://web.facebook.com/groups/492060442032036

Book - Building the Cathedral https://www.amazon.com/Building-Cathedral-Answering-Meaning-Personal/dp/B0915PKWBY/

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