Jordan Bates on What's Next for Religion

* What’s ahead for spirituality in the West?

* What happens to us after we die?

* Is reality real?

* Are stories real?

* What is reality anyway?

* What is Buddhist emptiness?

* What is Direct Heart-Opened Experience?

* Are “magic mushrooms” an opening to transcendence?

* Is there a suprapersonal God?

Jordan Bates and I answer those questions and more…

Just kidding! We don’t answer them, but we have fun dancing around them (and more) in this 55-minute video. We hope you have fun watching it.

Jordan’s Substack is Future of Wisdom, and his most recent book is God's Love: Medicine From the Ever Innocent Heart.

And a quick note: Buddhism is non-theistic but not anti-theistic. I don’t tend to use the G word, but when others do, I think of it as the interconnectedness of the Buddha's Nature within every being.

I’ve started a thread in Substack Chat on post-religion. It’s open to all From the Pure Land subscribers.

From the Pure Land has thousands of readers and subscribers in 40 U.S. states and 22 countries, and the podcast has thousands of listeners in 55 countries.

Check out the website at melpine.substack.com.