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Ep 130  |  Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett: “Living Your Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable”

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Show Summary

At the intersection between science and spirituality lies some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves about the future – the answers to which could mean the difference between humanity’s mere survival or a flourishing. 

Today’s episode with Peabody-award winning broadcaster Krista Tippett is an exploration into what it means to be human in our modern world and engage as individuals in the inner work required to create outward transformation.

What does it mean to ask questions that include the layer of a “Deep How”, and how can we learn to hold, love, and live into the questions themselves when their answers may not exist yet? How could ‘moral imagination’, intentional conversation, and slowing down the pace of change lead to a longer lasting, sustainable evolution in human society? What would it take for us to finally grow up as a species and step up to face some of the most existential challenges in the history of our existence? 

About Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She created and hosts On Being, which has won the highest honors in broadcast, Internet and podcasting. Her newsletter, The Pause, and On Being Project are evolving to meet the callings of the post-2020 world — and to accompany the generative people and possibilities within this tender, tumultuous time to be alive.  Her most recent book is Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.

In French, we have a motto that says that a simple drawing is often better than a long explanation. Jean-Marc Jancovici Carbone 4 President

That’s very understandable because with left atmosphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher

We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Director of ISEOF

This is the crux of the whole problem. Individual parts of nature are more valuable than the biocomplexity of nature. Thomas Crowther Founder Restor

Show Notes & Links to Learn More

00:00 – Krista Tippett Works + Info, On Being, The Pause

06:25 – Rainer Maria Rilke

06:54 – Letters to a Young Poet

10:09 – Vulcan mind meld

15:25 – Generative inquiries

19:01 – ‘The better angels of our nature’ – Lincoln

22:05 – Discernment

25:02 – Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

25:20 – Isabel Wilkerson

27:30 – Jonas Salk, Are we being good ancestors?

31:02 – Fall of religiousness in the US and Europe

32:20 – Crisis of community gathering and grounding

33:02 – Importance of ritual

33:31 – Poetry for meaning

34:20 – Importance of silence

34:32 – ‘Time is money’ – Benjamin Franklin

35:25 – How clocks changed our relationship with time

36:13 – Time is not linearEinstein on time as an illusion

37:19 – John Paul LetterockOn Being Episode

40:06 – Vincent HardingOn Being Episode

42:05 – Neils Bohr, the physics of deep truth

44:01 – The cooperative nature of a forest

44:56 – There are more microbial cells than human cells in the body

47:02 – The Carbon Pulse

47:58 – Scientists are finding new organs

50:01 – Gabrielle Giffords shooting

51:56 – Amygdala, Nervous system

53:55 – The importance of doing nothing

54:54 – Mental Health Crisis

1:00:42 – NPR funding cuts and bias accusations

1:01:27 – The illusion of objectivity

1:04:03 – Economics basis of the rational human

1:05:45 – AI risks to journalism

1:07:07 – Gut as the second brain, most serotonin is produced in the gut

1:08:44 – All the types of love in ancient greek

1:10:37 – The Science of Awe, Dacher KeltnerOn Being Episode

1:12:12 – Collective Effervescence 

1:13:15 – Moral Beauty

1:14:03 – Awe Walks

1:15:34 – Critical Mass, Critical YeastOn Being Episode

1:25:46 – Solutions journalism network

1:30:02 – St. John’s Abbey, Minnesota

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