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Michael Dowd Annotated, Part 1 - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Channel: Buddha at the Gas Pump® · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - The Evidential Reformation and the Greening of Religion
00:01:58 - The Demonic Nature of the Economic System
00:04:04 - The Power of Metaphors and Analogies in Shaping Perception
00:05:43 - The Importance of Our Concepts of God
00:07:29 - The Miracle of Nature and the Atheist Perspective
00:09:09 - The Emergentist Perspective
00:10:09 - The Perspective on Emergent Creativity
00:11:44 - Global Weirding and Its Impact on Climate Patterns
00:13:32 - The Path of Factual Faith
00:15:19 - The Unsustainable Economic System and Destruction of Nature
00:17:03 - The Voice of Nature and Ecological Principles
00:19:03 - The Most Important Book of the 20th Century
00:20:55 - The Universe Becoming Aware of Itself
00:22:29 - The Three Ways of Thinking and the Importance of Personification
00:23:47 - The Power of Personification
00:25:08 - The power of personification
00:26:25 - Personification: Creating Meaning through Symbols
00:27:56 - The Relationship Between Reality and Myth
00:29:34 - The Personification of Integrity and Anti-Future
00:31:22 - Powers and Principalities as Corporate Personhood and Evil
00:33:20 - Personification and Subtler Strata of Creation
00:35:34 - Spiritual Experiences and Nature
00:37:51 - Interpreting Reality through our Lenses
00:39:30 - Life's Conspiring on My Behalf
00:41:15 - Catabolic Collapse: The Decline of Civilizations
00:43:04 - Evolutionary Imperative: Going Through Collapse
00:44:34 - Cleansing the Doors of Perception and Universal Truth
00:46:55 - The Limitations of Nature and Ecological Reality
00:48:45 - The Intrinsic Infinity of Creation
00:50:55 - Rediscovering Humility in the Face of Nature
00:52:59 - Humility and Seeing the Sacred in All Beings
00:55:04 - [BLANK_AUDIO]

Extracts from original BatGap interview, but annotated with text and graphic overlays. In this first episode of the series, Michael Dowd speaks of his "pro-future" distinctions in the context of broad concerns as well as the metaphysical/Buddhist worldview set forth in questions posed by Rick Archer, host of the "Buddha at the Gas Pump" conversation series (extracts of which have been re-shaped into this video).

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