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Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 2: The Thesis of JesusChapter 7: The Road that Leads to Life (Righteousness III: the Future) This episode concludes Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus. Jake and I continue to study the 1st discourse of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount - looking at chapter 7 of Matthew’s Gospel in the light of first three beattitudes, as well as the ethical-existential problem of orienting to the future.Here we look at Jesus' answer to the question of how one should live with respect to the future. We discuss the "transjective equations" in Jesus' teaching, and how it relates to psychology - looking at psychodynamic concepts like projection, libido, and object-cathexis. In this episode:0:00 - Restart and Recap3:45 - The 3rd Beattitude: Meekness + Reading05:25 - On Jesus’ “Transjective Equations” (cf. John Vervaeke)9:40 - Jesus’ discovery of psychological projection14:00 - What is meekness?19:10 - The strength which is in meekness21:20 - How saints and poets inherit the earth 25:30 - Pop vs. Indie28:40 - Was Jesus’ career a dud?31:00 - The 2nd Beattitude: Mourning + Reading32:40 - Ask-Seek-Knock vis-à-vis mourning and comfort33:45 - On Freud’s paper “Mourning and Melancholia”36:06 - The paradox of mourning38:30 - Our modern culture and depression42:10 - The Golden Transjective Equation48:25 - The 1st Beattitude: Poor in Spirit + Reading52:55 - Spiritually Poor, or Spirit of the Poor?58:05 - The Narrow Gate and the Hard Road1:01:30 - Doubt and the salesmen of security1:04:00 - False security in the (literal) name of Christ1:06:50 - Jesus’ Way is ultimately an ethic1:11:00 - Concluding our discussion of the Sermon