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Friends,
Is it enough to just think new thoughts to change the world? Is it a matter of having the right knowledge, the right perspective, the right information? The answer may seem unfortunate given the urgency of our times: Absolutely not.
What we need instead is to actually change our thinking. That’s a completely different task, and one that’s much more difficult. But it’s also much more gratifying and powerful and transformative. I knew that I’d have to talk to someone about this on the show, and I knew that one of the most capable and thinking-filled people to talk about this with was Scott Eliiot Hicks.
Scott is one of a small group of teachers worldwide who have used Rudolf Steiner’s book The Philosophy of Freedom (also known as Intuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path) as it was intended – that is, as a living guide through occult development.What happens on this path is that you start to get in touch with not just your thoughts, but the actual direction, flow, and livingness of thinking.
Scott’s books are dense and dizzying and totally worth the journey. They include The Resurrection of Thinking: Steiner’s Anthroposophy & the Postmodernism of Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida & Levinas (available through bookshop.org – you can see how this title would appeal to me!), and two books only available via Amazon, Earthly, Transcendental, & Spiritual Logic: From Husserl’s Phenomenology to Steiner’s Anthroposophy and his novel The Shattering Light of Stars.
We go deep on this episode, and I’m so excited to share it with you.
ON THIS EPISODE
- Why thought is not enough and we must change thinking
- Being stuck in a “spiritual eggshell” or “shell hell” after death
- The unappealing-ness of doing spiritual work and why we can/should overcome it
- Why do some spiritual events and encounters show up for some people out of nowhere?
- The darker spirits we’re all full of
- Why clairvoyance is often just a disguise for materialism
- How to see what objects really are if they’re not material
- Why you should forgive yourself when you move out of your spiritual developments
- Why spiritual experiences are difficult to hold in memory
- Language as boom tube – and how a new language arises when you are spoken by the spiritual world
- Sex as an occult encounter and why sex is so “dark”
- Why love cannot exist without the antichrist
- The need for forming constellations of spiritual seekers
- The coming struggles with AI
SHOW NOTES
• For more on Scott, visit his excellent website, which features many blog entires to alternately wade through and dive into the deep end of the spiritual development of thinking. His site also links to his excellent series of short videos on YouTube.
• I talked a bit about the difference between thinking and thought way back on AEWCH 20 with rogue anthropologist David Shorter. And I discuss anthroposophy directly on AEWCH 116 with Are Thoresen and AEWCH 68 with Lisa Romero.• For more on the spiritual double, check out the booklist for this episode.
• I love Scott’s expression of language creating “positive voids” like boom tubes in DC Comics.
• In spite of giving him a hard time on this ep, I like Jacques Lacan quite a bit, and discuss his work and psychoanalysis in general with Todd McGowan on AEWCH 47.
• Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon‘s work comes up a lot on this episode. I suggest you look into his work, which centers around what he calls “cognitive yoga.”
Until next time, my friends,
XO
CH
Conner Habib 
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