Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind

How do you become religious? What is a conversion experience? Does it happen all at once or gradually? What's the point of religion, anyway? These are questions that JF (a Catholic) and Phil (a Zennist) have often been asked since starting Weird Studies, and in this episode they attempt some answers.

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REFERENCES

Ross Douthat, Believe

Dogen, Shobogenzo (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780824814014)

New Atheism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism

Weird Studies, Episode 99 on “Wild, Wild Country” (weirdstudies.com/99%E2%81%A0%20%C2%A0)

William James,Varieties of Religious Experience (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780140390346)

George Steiner,Real Presences

Patrick Curry, Art and Enchantment (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781032404677%E2%81%A0%20…)

Max Picard,The Flight from God (goodreads.com/book/show/710529.The_Flight_from…)

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780674986916%E2%81%A0%20…)

James Carse,Finite and Infinite Games (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781476731711%E2%81%A0%20…)

Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen%…)

Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780231059831%E2%81%A0%C2…)

Weird Studies, Episode 183 on “Siddhartha” (weirdstudies.com/183%E2%81%A0%C2%A0)

Charles Sanders Peirce (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce%E…), American philosopher

Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah (youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q&list=RDYrL…)”

Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619%E2%81%A0%20…)

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