A stream-of-conscious sermon-ramble synthesizing ideas from psychology, big history, complexity theory, sociology, and more into a transcendent-naturalistic vision of the sacred. How do the insights from thinkers like Layman Pascal, John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, Ken Wilber, Bobby Azarian, Michael Levin, and others cohere into a metamodern conception of the divine? With maddening jargon and name-dropping, I explain. Hopefully of value to some. Pretentious and pedantic for most.

0:00 The Sacred as Surplus Cohesion
0:47 Optimal Grip of Affordances in Context
1:41 Flow and Reciprocal Opening
2:21 Learning
3:08 Relevance Realization as Complexification
4:04 The Zone of Proximal Development
5:16 Leveling Up
5:44 Meaning
6:26 Evolution as Learning: The Integrated Evolutionary Synthesis
7:28 Energy Flow and Informational Richness
8:28 The Sacred as the Call to Transcend, Evolve, Complexify
15:37 Traditional Socialization through the Sacred
16:24 The Call into Uncharted Territory: Updating the Sacred
17:24 Emergence
18:30 God
19:20 Learning and Worldviews
19:59 The Sacred as Transcendence in Human Culture
21:38 Evolution of the God-Concept
25:06 Telos: The God Beyond All "Gods"