GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast
What do we mean when we speak of human experience?
In this fourth installment of the Radically Personal series, Jerry Martin takes up that question and follows it carefully. Modern philosophy and science often frame experience in terms of sensations, data, or brain activity. Yet the way we actually live and perceive suggests something more expansive.
Drawing on William James, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hilary Putnam, Martin Buber, Edith Stein, and others, Jerry reflects on how we encounter the world in practice. He considers perception and embodiment, the depth present in persons and things, the pull of beauty and awe, and the way empathy makes another’s inner life accessible.
The discussion gradually turns toward love and value, tracing how worth emerges within experience itself. As the episode moves from perception to relationship to meaning, a picture comes into view: depth is not added from outside but belongs to experience as lived.
Join Jerry in taking experience seriously; it may open new ways of thinking about meaning, reality, and the possibility of the divine.
Get the books: Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age | God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
Stay Connected: questions@godanautobiography.com
Share Your Story | Site | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube