Dr. Dylan Johnson

What are we?

What is our relationship with nature?

What is our relationship with the divine?

Are we just human animals or is there something distinct about us?

What is consciousness?

These are timeless questions.

And that's what really resonates with me.

And then for people of faith, you know, there's many different divergences in terms of interpretation about sin.

especially for Jewish congregations, we can't talk about Eden without talking about the temple, how, you know, encounters with God, how we try to embed that in place and space.

That becomes a really interesting question.

So when we walk into the synagogue, the temple, the church,

cathedral are these you know replications of eden trying trying to get us back to that to that thing that's lost so i think it has real resonance especially because it's so well known you know if people people forgot gilgamesh for a long time so so it it still resonates with me but not in the same way as with other people right so that that for me is is the significance of this story

They can check out my Cardiff University webpage or listen to the other podcasts, the ancients that I've been on.

So I talk a lot about the other stories of the Bible.

Absolutely.

Had a blast.

Thank you for inviting me.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Absolutely.