Lecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God

Lecture I in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the notion of sovereignty and power, divorced from any concrete sovereign or particular, individual person of power. I also suggest that God, as Father, is something akin to the spirit or pattern inherent in the human hierarchy of authority, which is based in turn on the dominance hierarchies characterizing animals.

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Made by lightingman117 just posting so it won't vanish to make it easy for myself and others.
3:00 - learn by lecture
3:30 - Nietzsche
6:40 - We don't know what we don't know
7:30 - Know things without knowing things?
8:50 - Sickness of the human spirit
10:30 - The Western wandering intellect
12:30 - Social Psychopathology
16:00 - We're complex
18:30 - Intimation sof the Divine
20:20 - Sub-personalities?
22:45 - Dreams are the birthplace of thinking
35:00 - Art?
41:00 - Bear worship
44:20 - Anti-Religious
50:00 - Abstracted ideal
55:30 - Marduk
1:02:35 - Why do you think?
1:04:58 - The approach
1:07:10 - Psychoanalytic Thinker
1:10:02 - Literary
1:14:49 - Sisyphus
1:16:10 - Noble aim
1:18:56 - love others, love yourself
1:21:55 - Moral
1:25:30 - Rational
1:25:56 - Phenomenolgical it matters
1:33:20 - The Bible
1:40:00 - Genesis
1:44:00 - Intrinsic Value
1:45:10 - We're devine
1:48:53 - Rationalistic, utopian, aetheistic ideas
1:50:32 - Genesis 1:1
2:09:32 - New Testament is true?

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3:00 - learn by lecture
3:30 - Nietzsche
6:40 - We don't know what we don't know
7:30 - Know things without knowing things?
8:50 - Sickness of the human spirit
10:30 - The Western wandering intellect
12:30 - Social Psychopathology
16:00 - We're complex
18:30 - Intimation sof the Divine
20:20 - Sub-personalities?
22:45 - Dreams are the birthplace of thinking
35:00 - Art?
41:00 - Bear worship
44:20 - Anti-Religious
50:00 - Abstracted ideal
55:30 - Marduk
1:02:35 - Why do you think?
1:04:58 - The approach
1:07:10 - Psychoanalytic Thinker
1:10:02 - Literary
1:14:49 - Sisyphus
1:16:10 - Noble aim
1:18:56 - love others, love yourself
1:21:55 - Moral
1:25:30 - Rational
1:25:56 - Phenomenolgical it matters
1:33:20 - The Bible
1:40:00 - Genesis
1:44:00 - Intrinsic Value
1:45:10 - We're devine
1:48:53 - Rationalistic, utopian, aetheistic ideas
1:50:32 - Genesis 1:1
2:09:32 - New Testament is true?