HeyJaredJamey Hecht, Author
Author, panentheist, reluctant centrist. PhD, English; PsyD, Psychoanalysis. New manuscript: INTO THEISM: Overcoming Obstacles to Belief in God. Here to review books & theater / discuss culture, consciousness, & the pursuit of wisdom. Welcome!
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Sisyphus is Happy, Up is Down, Day is Night (opens the original)
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This post is a modified excerpt from Chapter 7 of Into Theism (Essentia books, 2027).Sisyphus and PrometheusNear the end of A Universe from Nothing (2012), physicist Lawrence Krauss discloses the personal side of his worldview, which turns out to be the bleak neurotic wasteland of Albert Camus’ celebrated 1942 essay, “The Myth of Sisyphus”:I have always been attracted to the myth of Sisyphus and have likened the scientific effort at times to his eternal task of pushing a boul
Lecture Review: “Can Atheists Have Mystical Experiences?” by Ariane Moore at TEDxHobart (opens the original)
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I just watched an 18-minute TEDx talk from Mar 28, 2022, called “Can Atheists Have Mystical Experiences?” Watch the whole thing once through, to get the full effect. That way, my comments won’t interrupt the flow of her ideas. Then, jump in. Thanks.It takes some courage to stand on a stage and hold forth about one’s early history and one’s philosophical position. I respect that. If I’m a little cranky in this review, it’s partly because I take issue with the looseness of
Intermarriage, Identity, and Raising A Jewish Child (opens the original)
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This morning, I’ve been reading To Raise A Jewish Child (1977) by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin. It’s a bittersweet experience.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="542" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vFdB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_au
Note on Nietzsche's Fall from Greece to Rome (opens the original)
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I recently came across this paragraph in a certain book on atheism from 2003:A few things about religion become visible from the history of doubt. One is that there was belief before there was doubt, but only after there was a culture of doubt could there be the kind of active believing that is at the center of modern faiths.1 Until the Greeks filled libraries with skepticism and secularism, no one ever thought of having a religion where the central active gesture was to believe. Another is that
To An Atheistic Naturalist (opens the original)
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You’ve found a way of thinking that suits you.I don’t want to take that away, or wreck it. I couldn’t anyhow.But since you’ve done me the honor of starting this conversation, I’m assuming you’re interested in my thinking, which is different from yours.I don’t just come to different conclusions; I think differently, and that’s how I come to them.<a class="image-link image2
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