Episode 2: What is Embodied Philosophy as a Way of Life?

Today, learning and knowledge-seeking is considered a broadly secular pursuit, but in the past the path of knowledge was a spiritual one. In this episode, we are taken on an explorative journey across different 'wisdom traditions' including the Jnana Marga or path of knowledge of Yoga, and the Chritian mystical tradition with its notions of theosis and gnosis, to consider how philosophy has been embodied as a way of life in the past, and what that might for 'embodying philosophy' today. This episode contains the central ideas that inspire this podcast, which seeks to revive a premodern understanding and practice of philosophy, embodied as a way of life. But don't worry if it's a lot to take in! Just absorb what comes; as you will learn in this episode, ultimately it is not about acquiring facts, but about being transformed, where knowing is a form of being, orientated towards more, understood as God or something else.