Jonathan Pageau in Dublin: The Christian Faith, the Nature of Myth, and the Truth of Stories
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2024
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In my first in-person event for More Christ, Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Martin Shaw come together in Dublin for a day of transformative wonder tales and deep discussions.
Together with an audience, we wrestled with some major questions:
How can we understand the deep symbolism of the Christian story? What do the lives of the saints and the tales woven around them have to say to us today? Can the ancient roots of the faith, in Ireland and beyond, be rediscovered in a world desperate for spiritual truth? How should we live that truth?
On Saturday 3rd June, Dublin hosted a memorable conference on myth, symbolism, and the Christian story in the 21st century. Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Martin Shaw introduced a different Christian vocabulary, regaling an audience with Christian wonder tales, and laid out a vision that goes beyond the confines of modernity or cosy nostalgia.
Jonathan Pageau is an icon carver, symbologist, and public speaker. He is the host of the popular UA-cam channel and podcast, The Symbolic World. Along with his brother, Matthieu, he is also the author of God's Dog, a graphic novel based on the epic legend of the dog-headed Saint Christopher.
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. He has written nine books, including the Booker-nominated novel The Wake and several collections of essays and poetry. He has taught and spoken across the world.
Martin Shaw is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and mythologist. He has toured internationally numerous times and created the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University. He lived in a tent for four years, exploring remaining areas of British wilderness. The Sunday Times describes his latest book Bardskull as "a full tilt gallop...clear water from a rushing spring"
Hosted by Marcas Connolly of UA-cam's More Christ, this day was dedicated to exploring the myths and symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, and how they can speak to us as we navigate modern culture.
Ultimately, we hope attendees went away transformed by the renewal of their minds, able to see the Christian story and the world around them in a newly invigorated light.
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Maybe someday Jonathan will want to make animations of all these stories and myths! Would be great to see them all come to life.
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Excellent, thank you 🙏🏻
I am sorry that sound in not so good : ( here is even ok how bad is at Paul Kingsnirth video...Hope everything works on your future events. You are gathering great people! God bless all you do! 🙏💪
The inclination of peoples to weave older stories into the canon of their own mythology - I wonder what that means for the way we use social media? Jonathan has talked about how social media speeds up the interpersonal agencies that play out to the point that we can see them. And, when I look at it the way he says, where the human is the vessel through which meaning organises itself in the world, then the human desire to see the symbolic echoes of older mythos and weave them into our own might be that pattern of meaning playing itself out.
With social media the user feedback is so instantaneous - and we use it as a major piece of connective fibre in our very practically minded world - political discourse is borne out on twitter, for example, this discourse of materially logical problem solving - hypothetically, at least. We know how (excuse me) evangelical people get on twitter. And that's the point, really. But, Jonathan says in this video - knicking ideas from the aeneid and positing that they are christian prophecies - it's a normal thing to do in it's right place - in the context of building a narrative world in which to inhabit. But like, if your political tribe is unconsciously acting that inclination out on social media... the mind goes running with all the potential problems that's causing.
Because its basically seeing in the works of others that which you want to see, and which benefits you. Moderns call that bias. And, the sum total of all the tweets of your political opponents constitues a kind of body of work. It can effectively appear to be arranged in that way because of the speed of social media. And so to construct your political home, your opponent is more and more a narrative representation of villainy, because that serves your misguided aim. That you have an apparently noble cause requires you to see in your opponent a terrible enemy. And then both political aisles are having arguments with their made up symbolic villains which more and more loosely represent the true opponent. And so then when the real opponent says anything that might correspond with the imagined terrible plot of the imagined terrible opponent, the illusion is strengthened. And then, to try to listen to the real political opponent in good faith, your house is being destroyed. And since social media is supposed to be a place of real political discourse, this illusion, this false home is bought at the expense of real world repercussion.
Could the sound be improved?
Unfortunately, the microphones at the venue weren't working on the day of recording. Very disappointing. I've used an editing software to remove a bit of background noise and so on but I'm no tech whizz. If Jonathan releases it on his channel, perhaps he will do a better job with the editing and make it a bit clearer.
You had to be there
Is this from the Saturday?
It is indeed, Reuben. :)
It was great being there. I am delighted to listen to it again!