Today, my guest is author and friend from across the pond, Kester Brewin. Our conversation covers fascinating topics about human nature and the history of drug culture and the Jesus movement, the surprising backstory about colonial era Pirates and mutiny few of us have heard, along with some of Kester’s personal journey.
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SHOW NOTES
on Pirates, and Getting High (Transcendence)
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• Math teacher, by day
– started VAUX community, and is the author of a number of books
The Complexed Christ
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Mutiny (about pirates and democracy)
Here’s his UK TED talk
4:00
What Pirates are actually all about.
In culture and film and even theology.
An act of self determination.
Everyone was stealing. Pirates bought themselves more years.
Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death, is turned into new life.
Pirate radio and other uprisings that set riches into public circulation.
9:00
Theology, Piracy and Peter Pan
Overcoming the Father and the piracy of that.
12:30
Kester’s book Mutiny
He tackles two stories.
The Prodigal Son – retold as a tragedy
and The Odyssey
~If you’d like…read the PRODIGAL SON parable in the Bible HERE.~
When children become free.
MIN 20:00
The latest book
Getting High A Savage Journey to the Heart the Dream of Flight
An argument with Peter Rollins about the infinite.
The ancient and ongoing quest for transcendence;
wanting to lift away.
Humans can’t fly.
Flight, space, mind trips, charismatics, emotionalism
22:00
“Up there” becomes spiritual, like fire straining to reach the lights of heaven.
24:00
Flight is seen as a sin at first.
Balloonists (first “flyers”) refer to the experience as spiritual.
25:00
Space program of the 1960s
LSD counter culture
And the pentecostal movement
Technology has spiritual weight, meaning and significance to humans.
Lonnie Frisbee hippie has experience meeting Jesus in the bible.
Beach music brought into church and known as worship tunes.
John Wimber and the Vineyard church
Middle class Christianity
Hell’s Angels, working class men.
29:00
Kester’s religious background
mind trips and technologies trying to lift us out because of anxiety.
Apollo missions were evangelistic.
34:00
The stress and need to lift off especially seen in poor communities.
Link to Kester’s audio presentation–a half hour meditation called ‘High Flight‘ – for BBC Radio 4’s program called “Something Understood”.
