Totem Figures - Chris Dierkes
Totem Figures - Chris Dierkes
Audio Interview with Chris Dierkes
Chris Dierkes is a prominent blogger on religion, philosophy and politics - and is awaiting appointment to a parish ministry as an Anglican priest. In his interview Chris talks about growing up Catholic, studying to be a Jesuit, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ken Wilber and Integral Philosophy, and his interest in the history of Islam.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Get a load of this: a spiritual/biological stunt! Integral philosopher Ken Wilber has meditated so much that he can change his brain wave states at will - even right down to basically no activity at all. This shows the correlation between meditative states (the interior subjective domain) and biological brain states (the interior objective domain).
Chris Dierkes writes the blog Indistinct Union and is one of several contributors at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and the soon to be launched Beams and Struts: An Integral Enquiry of the Post Post Modern World.
Now that you’ve seen him stop and restart his brain, listen to Ken talk about some of his ideas - in this case: very intense modes of female spiritual practice. The books mentioned in Chris interview, by the way, are A Theory of Everything and Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.
In the tradition of Islam, God has 99 names. That’s them on the right - in arabic script.
St Augustine (left) and St. Thomas Aquinas (below) are two saints Chris talks about in his interview. He also supplied this link to the Ignatian Prayer of the Examination of Conscience.