Launching the first "Bridging the Gap" Course in Dublin!!
An in-person course in Dublin on recovering from the meaning crisis!!
This is exciting!!
It's been nearly 10 years that I've been thinking about the meaning crisis, getting over my own personal meaning crisis issues with nihilism, with alienation, with anxiety, addiction and also learning the theory behind the meaning crisis. You know, why? Why are modern young people who are relatively safe and well-fed having these existential problems which were basically unheard of in the past? Well, turns out there's a big story behind it, almost five hundred years in the making! There's a lot of philosophy, there's a lot of psychology, there's a lot of mythology, and there's a lot of things that we need to learn about in order to reenter a meaningful way of life.
So basically what I've done is taken all the things I've learned over this 10 years and tried to shrink it down into a single course, a curriculum that you can participate in as a lay person (you don't have to have an academic background in this stuff to participate) called “Bridging the gap”.
The course will be in six modules:
Module One: Introduction to the Meaning Crisis
Module Two: What is meaning in life?
Module Three: Attention Changes Everything
Module Four: The Hero Meta-Mythology and the Ultimate Story
Module Five: The Rationality of Ritual and Morality
Module Six: Community around the Sacred
These topics will be focusing on:
The roots of the meaning crisis in our culture and how it affects us today
How the scientific revolution changed the way we see reality and ourselves
The power of mythology, ritual, and symbolism, and how they can be understood in a modern world
The latest cognitive science and psychology of meaning in life
How the Christian story offers a framework for morality, community, and a meaningful life
If you would like to join (or know someone who might be interested) the course will be offered in-person in Rathfarnham Parish Centre (2-12 Willbrook Rd, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14, D14 KP71) on Tuesday evenings across these dates:
First course: 23rd Sept to 28th Oct, Tuesday evenings 7 pm to 9 pm
Second course: 20th Jan to 24th Feb, Tuesday evenings 7 pm to 9 pm
The course is free, the point is not getting rich but in getting people out of the meaning crisis! However, the numbers are limited for both courses so if you are interested in joining make sure to sign up right away! 👇
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