Seekers of Unity

Freud waged a war against religion and occultism. His main weapon? Sex and Science. Exploring Freud’s response to mysticism. Part 1: The Most Dangerous Mind of the 20th Century https://youtu.be/4sge_4KfCrM Part 2: The Mystic that Challenged Freud https://youtu.be/NSNVB-iYNyY Part 3: FREUD, Sex & Science vs JUNG, Religion & Occultism https://youtu.be/m2t0Yi2OJvE 00:00 Black Tide 03:02 Sex v...

Who was Freud's Secret Mystic Friend? Exploring Freud's relationship with a mystic and the chapter in Freud's best-selling Civilization and Its Discontents, in which he attempts to answer this mysterious mystic. Part 1: The Most Dangerous Mind of the 20th Century https://youtu.be/4sge_4KfCrM Part 2: The Mystic that Challenged Freud https://youtu.be/NSNVB-iYNyY Part 3: FREUD, Sex & Science vs J...

Despite being long rejected, there are very few thinkers who have framed the way you, the modern person, thinks about yourself and the world around you as the irreverent neurotic Jewish Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Shlomo Freud. Join us to learn about his life, his ideas and his legacy. Part 1: The Most Dangerous Mind of the 20th Century https://youtu.be/4sge_4KfCrM Part 2: The Mystic that Challe...

The Great Myth Awakens; Mysticism for the Modern World: An exploration of the unitive experiences, theories and practice of the world’s mystical traditions. Seeking a universal spirituality, a mysticism which transcends all boundaries while remaining deeply rooted in tradition. Exploring an upgraded operating system for religion, a rationally, empirically, scientifically and philosophically sound...

Off the Record Interview with the fastest growing new religion in the world. What being Baháʼí is Really All About | Spiritual Conversation about the Life of Faith 00:00 Excerpt 00:56 Contextualizing Baháʼí 07:57 Coming to Baháʼí 14:15 Community of Volunteers 20:57 Mysticism in Baháʼí 27:41 Manifesting God 36:51 13 Key Principles of Faith 56:04 Spiritual Practice & Experience 1:02:02 Prayer in...

Join us for an Exclusive Interview at the Baha'i World Centre as we take a deep dive into the faiths of our neighbors to find out what they actually believe. 00:00 Excerpt 01:06 Brief History of the Bahá'í faith 10:45 Prayer/Invocation to begin the conversation 14:55 Mysticism and the Bahá'í faith 30:44 Becoming God 40:33 On the Nature of God 49:08 Bahá'í, a Perfect Faith? 51:40 Emanation, Manifes...

Can religion still provide us with real connection, salvation and redemption in our modern alienated world? 00:00 An Idea 10:21 Paradigm Shift 19:30 The Kabbalists 30:29 Our Role 34:57 About Seekers 40:00 Q&A 47:03 Q#2 52:39 Q#3 #mysticism #religion #unity Join us: https://discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsm https://facebook.com/seekersofunity https://instagram.com/seekersofunity https://www.twitter.com/see...

The Perennial Philosophy, or Perennialism for short, claims that the depth traditions found within the major world religions all converge upon the same metaphysical vision - namely, the identification of our deepest selves with a divine, transcendental ground. Popularized by Aldous Huxley in his 1945 The Perennial Philosophy it has a natural appeal to many thinking, spiritually inclined individual...

Martin Buber is a name that will forever be associated with mysticism and philosophy. His book, I and Thou, continues to touch the lives of thousands. There is perhaps no person who has done more to preserve and present his work than world-renown Buber scholar, Paul Mendes-Flohr. In this conversation we explore Buber's transition from Mysticism to Dialogue. Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr is a leading...

Come behind the scenes with Zevi as he tries to figure out what is going on in Maimonides’ Guide with the help of a new friend, the young and brilliant scholar David Fried. David Fried teaches Talmud, Halakha, and Jewish Thought at the Ramaz Upper School in New York City. He is also an editor and frequent contributor at thelehrhaus.com David’s articles can be found here: https://thelehrhaus.com/au...

If exacting rationalism and ecstatic mysticism are mutually exclusive, how does Maimonides thrive in a contemporary dynamic, ecstatic, kabbalistic mystical movement? In this episode, we explore Maimonides’ rich afterlife in the Chabad Hasidic movement. We’ll investigate how this mystical movement embraces Maimonides philosophical and Aristotelian teachings, using Maimonides to ground its mysticism...

Judaism’s greatest philosopher, Moses Maimonides, believed that Judaism’s ancient mystery tradition with all her secrets, had been lost to sands of time, and took it upon himself to reconstruct them, on his own, from scratch, with the tools of philosophy and rationality. Maimonides is known as the great Jewish rationalist of the Middle Ages, but his rationalism, goes deeper than most might suspect...

Something very odd happens in the very last chapter of Maimonides’ Guide which remains an elusive puzzle even today, 800 years on. Maimonides, in Guide 3.51, lays out in stunning detail, the pinnacle of religious worship and human striving, culminating in an immortal union with the divine, what he calls the ‘kiss of death,’ the peak of his mystical journey. However, the Guide does not end with tha...

There’s one final question to ask when examining Maimonides mysticism and that is, did Maimonides believe that the human could actually reach, know and experience God? Getting down to the fine print in the debate about Maimonides mysticism: Did Maimonides believe that one could know and unite with something metaphysical? And if so, which metaphysical entity does he believe the aspiring seeker can...

Join us for a wild ride through the mind of Maimonides into the mind of God. Exploring Maimonides theory of knowledge (epistemology). How one may activate their mind by uniting with the divine active intellect. Followed by Maimonides radical and brilliant re-reading of divine providence. Join us:  https://facebook.com/seekersofunity  https://instagram.com/seekersofunity  https://www...

An attempt to leave our 21st century heads and get back into the mind of a 12th century philosopher who saw the world in entirely different ways than we do. Diving into the Middle Ages thought the mind of Maimonides. Exploring Maimonides on the Cosmic Spheres, the Flow, the Active Intellect, his theory prophecy and.. how to becoming an angel. Sources and Further Reading   •  A. J. Hesche...

Would you believe us if we told you that a ninth century forgery, attributed to one of the greatest philosophers of all time, went on to fool centuries of readers and introduce its true author, one of the greatest mystics of the west, to the world of medieval philosophy? Exploring Maimonides' struggle with the peculiar notion of God that he adopts from the Theology of Aristotle. Join us to learn a...

Introducing the greatest work of Jewish philosophy ever written. Moving masterfully through a thousand years of Greek, Jewish and Muslim philosophy, this text grapples profoundly with the problem of evil, the nature of reality and the meaning of life. Culminating with an astonishing re-reading of the Bible, which radically redefines God, religion and humanity in the process. Banned and burned by r...

There’s been a lot of talk about whether Maimonides was a mystic. Unfortunately, the discussion has been sorely confused by a lack of clarity about the basic terms of the discussion. It’s time to clear things up and get straight about the relationship between these misused and abused words: Kabbalah, Mysticism and Rationalism. Join us for the fourth installment of our series on “Maimonides and Mys...

Exploring the relationship between Maimonides and the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah. A history of rejection, acceptance, influence, secret conversions and archenemies. Join us in our attempt to get to the bottom of this love-hate relationship in this third part of our series on Maimonides and Mysticism. Sources and Further Reading:  - Alexander Altmann, “Maimonides’ Attitude Toward Je...

Looking at the many ways Maimonides has been received and perceived through time, from the 13th century up until the 21st, with a focus on the debate about Maimonides relationship to mysticism. A survey of scholars on Maimonides, a little literature review for the series. Join us:  https://facebook.com/seekersofunity  https://instagram.com/seekersofunity  https://www.twitter.com/see...

Introducing the genius philosopher, torah scholar and physician, the man whose books were banned and burned and still went on to change the face of Judaism; Moses Maimonides, the Rambam. Maimonides timeline:   1138 Born in Cordoba, Spain under Almoravid rule.  1148 Cordoba invaded by the Almohades. Maimonides flees.  1158 Maimonides starts work on intercalation and Astronomy 1160 Fa...

Exploring competing methodologies in the study of Mysticism, (Essentialism, Perennialism and Common-Core vs Contextualism and Constructivism) and questioning the very category of Mysticism itself. Slipping into the crack between Experience and Interpretation, and asking if it can be healed. The Series: Exploring the history of an idea, the story of the major developments in our collective understa...

Exploring the history of an idea, the story of the major developments in our collective understanding of the word “mysticism.” Join us as we attempt to understand what this word meant historically, how it came to mean what it does today, and what, if anything, it might mean for us going forward.   Learning how this category was formed, transformed, discussed and debated throughout the ages. J...

Understanding Mysticism: Join us as we attempt to understand what this word meant historically, how it came to mean what it does today, and what, if anything, it might mean for us going forward.   Exploring the history of an idea, the story of the major developments in our collective understanding of the word mysticism itself.   Examining how this category was formed, transformed, discus...