45. Rebuilding Our Culture's Missing Tradition (w/ Patrick Barry)

Patrick Barry, a former science journalist and current coder for the popular Waking Up meditation app, joins me to talk about building wisdom communities and Stoas for secular spirituality. As those who claim no affiliation with organized religion (the "nones") are now the most populous religious identity in America, what institutions of meaning, virtue, and self-reflection might we see appear that can properly meet the needs of metamodern seekers?0:00 Introduction4:13 Stoicism, Empiricism, and Secular Spirituality: Towards a Sacred Naturalism12:55 Science and the Sublime: Finding Significance in the Known22:52 The Missing Tradition27:02 Wisdom Gyms for Lived Philosophy: Adding 1st- and 2nd-Person Truths to 3rd-Person Fact51:30 Know Thyself: A Second Curriculum57:44 "Broicism"?: Shadow and the Developmental Conveyor Belt1:03:27 Integrating Tradition and Myth1:12:02 Stoicism in Metamodernity1:15:15 Conclusion Get full access to Brendan Graham Dempsey at brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/subscribe