I went down a little rabbit hole on my jog this morning, then tried to reproduce it as my sweaty shirt dried and my brain cooled down. It’s an attempt to organize some mad reflections on the things in the title.
I’ve spent many years and a lot of time and energy talking to people about God and religion. I’ve come to believe that a big part of the problem is that people are too reactionary and not very thoughtful. They respond to any fact, any argument, any perspective as if it must be immediately pigeonholed as for or against some particular religion, or religious idea.
That’s not the right way to think about things. You have to have a soup of ideas swimming around in your brain.
Anyway, if you want to hear my idle ramblings, here you go. It’s just short of 22 minutes.
So — what do you think about when you jog?
Forgive me if this sounds like pigeonholing, but it seems to me that you are moving towards some kind of Platonism: “The good is beyond being.”
Some elements of Platonism make sense. E.g., “triangle” is a concept that doesn’t exist in the real world, but it has some kind of existence. But whenever I have tried to get into Platonism in any depth, it seems to become silly.
Also, regarding the association (identification?) of archetypes with religion, I am reminded of Nietzsche’s characterization of Christianity as “Platonism for the people.”