Just gorgeous, Mr. Jacobs -- Another great episode to add to your ever-growing body of medicinal work. Putting the 'physician' in 'metaphysician'. Thank you. Discovering the grounding simplicity and infinite height of faith that grounds all that we confront and live through in this reality. Discovering that this fuller faith, in all its glory and eternal consolation, has been here for us to humbly encounter and participate in all along. Glory to God.
Thanks, that was intense and very helpful. Exactly what i needed to confirm my own conversion of the last 4 years.. whew!, really really well presented. Thank agsin. Glory be to God.
I gave up on Christianity due to the penal language and original sin ideas. One day I noticed a random comment on a RUclips video discussing the orthodox take on these topics, and it opened a whole new world to me. Thank God for showing me that random comment!
Dr Jacobs, you are changing lives with your podcast. I've been listening since episode 1, and I have been wrestling with some big questions. Your framing of realism and nominalism have helped me so much. And praise God for your family coming to the faith! Keep up the great work.
Would love to hear your (or anyone's) thoughts on cremation, and if it ruins your chances at an afterlife since you have no body to be resurrected on judgement day.
Dear Mr. Jacobs, do you have any recommendations for an introductory book on orthodox theology? Or would you recommend going directly to the church fathers? Thank you, and keep up that good work of yours. 😊
Stay tuned! Early next year Dr. Jacobs will be dropping an Orthodox foundations lecture series. Keep an eye on the channel for updates on when and where it'll be available.
Maybe your unnuanced criticism can apply to some people, but not to what Dr. Jacobs said here. What he actually said was: "I share this because LSD-or “acid”-played an important role in my spiritual awakening. Be warned, dear reader, if you hope to hear something about the trendy notion that LSD has spiritual benefits, opening the mind to the divinity that surrounds us, then what I am about to say will disappoint. The experience I am about to recount awakened me, not to the fact that God is everywhere present and fills all things, but instead to the reality of Hell."
@@jmar237 Many of the testimonies I'm referring to are similar, albeit often less eloquent. My point still stands. "help on the spiritual journey" and "important role in my spiritual awakening" are different, especially since he added that he rejects LSD as having "spiritual benefits". I'm pointing out the tension between those two, especially how common that is for Orthodox people. Between online strangers and people I know personally, psychedelics were huge in dozens and dozens of recent converts. To simply write it off as "bad" might be premature.
@AlexStock187 Keep in mind, however, these people did not have an awareness of Orthodoxy in any serious sense. These drugs were a pathway for God to reach them as they were adrift in the abyss or the occult. You, however, are fully aware of Orthodoxy and God's calling. Beware of searching for "spiritual awakenings" when the answers to that search are already present in all these people's convert stories.
@@jmar237 I’m not sure you are getting my point… He says, in the very quote you provided, that he will not concede LSD as having spiritual benefits. I would argue that scaring someone about Hell and dismantling materialism ARE spiritual benefits. He very well may not be an Orthodox Christian today were it not for the *benefits* of LSD. According to Jay Dyer, neither would he, though he also condemns the substance. Same with David Patrick Harry. Same with many people in my parish. Same with lots of random Orthodox people online. I would not disagree that it is spiritually dangerous, or that it is an unqualified good. But looking at the large roster people for whom psychedelics are foundational to their Orthodox story, I disagree with the idea that they “do not have spiritual benefits and do not open the mind to the divinity that surrounds us.” They, like the Greek philosophers, are both a potential aid and a potential hindrance to Orthodoxy. But it would be absurd to say that reading them “does not have spiritual benefits and does not open the mind to the divinity that surrounds us.” Is it dangerous to read them? Potentially. Is it spiritually beneficial to read them? Possibly.
Just gorgeous, Mr. Jacobs -- Another great episode to add to your ever-growing body of medicinal work. Putting the 'physician' in 'metaphysician'. Thank you.
Discovering the grounding simplicity and infinite height of faith that grounds all that we confront and live through in this reality. Discovering that this fuller faith, in all its glory and eternal consolation, has been here for us to humbly encounter and participate in all along. Glory to God.
Thanks, that was intense and very helpful. Exactly what i needed to confirm my own conversion of the last 4 years.. whew!, really really well presented. Thank agsin. Glory be to God.
I gave up on Christianity due to the penal language and original sin ideas.
One day I noticed a random comment on a RUclips video discussing the orthodox take on these topics, and it opened a whole new world to me. Thank God for showing me that random comment!
Dr Jacobs, you are changing lives with your podcast. I've been listening since episode 1, and I have been wrestling with some big questions. Your framing of realism and nominalism have helped me so much. And praise God for your family coming to the faith!
Keep up the great work.
Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your journey to Faith! It builds my faith.
God bless you and your family!!!
Great Video, thank you! What is your opinion on Michael Allen Gillespie's work on nominalism and modernity?
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Great!
Would love to hear your (or anyone's) thoughts on cremation, and if it ruins your chances at an afterlife since you have no body to be resurrected on judgement day.
Dear Mr. Jacobs,
do you have any recommendations for an introductory book on orthodox theology? Or would you recommend going directly to the church fathers?
Thank you, and keep up that good work of yours. 😊
I really liked the Orthodox Way, by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. It’s plenty to chew on but very readable.
Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: by Michael Pomazansky's St Herman Press. New Prints should arrive in 2 weeks
Stay tuned! Early next year Dr. Jacobs will be dropping an Orthodox foundations lecture series. Keep an eye on the channel for updates on when and where it'll be available.
@@TheNathanJacobsPodcast Wonderful! I will wait patiently. 😇
@@timme5150 Thank you for your recommendation. I will have a look at it. 👍
Many Orthodox people: "LSD and other psychedelics do not help on the spiritual journey.... Also, LSD was a big part of what lead me to Orthodoxy."
Maybe your unnuanced criticism can apply to some people, but not to what Dr. Jacobs said here. What he actually said was: "I share this because LSD-or “acid”-played an important role in my spiritual awakening. Be warned, dear reader, if you hope to hear something about the trendy notion that LSD has spiritual benefits, opening the mind to the divinity that surrounds us, then what I am about to say will disappoint. The experience I am about to recount awakened me, not to the fact that God is everywhere present and fills all things, but instead to the reality of Hell."
@@jmar237 Many of the testimonies I'm referring to are similar, albeit often less eloquent. My point still stands. "help on the spiritual journey" and "important role in my spiritual awakening" are different, especially since he added that he rejects LSD as having "spiritual benefits". I'm pointing out the tension between those two, especially how common that is for Orthodox people. Between online strangers and people I know personally, psychedelics were huge in dozens and dozens of recent converts. To simply write it off as "bad" might be premature.
@AlexStock187 Keep in mind, however, these people did not have an awareness of Orthodoxy in any serious sense. These drugs were a pathway for God to reach them as they were adrift in the abyss or the occult. You, however, are fully aware of Orthodoxy and God's calling. Beware of searching for "spiritual awakenings" when the answers to that search are already present in all these people's convert stories.
@@AlexStock187 Your point definitely does not stand here. He makes a very specific distinction. It isn’t eloquence. It’s precision.
@@jmar237 I’m not sure you are getting my point… He says, in the very quote you provided, that he will not concede LSD as having spiritual benefits. I would argue that scaring someone about Hell and dismantling materialism ARE spiritual benefits. He very well may not be an Orthodox Christian today were it not for the *benefits* of LSD. According to Jay Dyer, neither would he, though he also condemns the substance. Same with David Patrick Harry. Same with many people in my parish. Same with lots of random Orthodox people online. I would not disagree that it is spiritually dangerous, or that it is an unqualified good. But looking at the large roster people for whom psychedelics are foundational to their Orthodox story, I disagree with the idea that they “do not have spiritual benefits and do not open the mind to the divinity that surrounds us.” They, like the Greek philosophers, are both a potential aid and a potential hindrance to Orthodoxy. But it would be absurd to say that reading them “does not have spiritual benefits and does not open the mind to the divinity that surrounds us.” Is it dangerous to read them? Potentially. Is it spiritually beneficial to read them? Possibly.