"You Are...an Empty Image?" - Episode 3 in the series, "Identity and Idolatry"

The third episode of our series begins with the question of identity considered through the lens of cultural anthropology and postmodernism. These disciplines consider how human beings construct identity, but conclude that it is impossible to come to know absolute truth. We can only know the images that we ourselves or others generate.  This perspective agrees in many ways with what Patrick and Jonah then take up:  an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Rudolf Steiner’s book Theosophy.  The human “I” is an identifier, but this can be understood as a receptacle.  Within it lies the capacity to overcome separation and emptiness by opening itself up to receive a higher content.

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