Dr. Rick Strassman (Interview Archive)

The only way I managed to grasp what the text was actually saying came from teaching myself Biblical Hebrew again, and more than that, from studying the commentaries written by medieval Jewish philosophers across roughly 800 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Those commentaries are not optional. Strip them away and the text stays closed to you. Most people meet the Bible once as a child, read a bit, talk about it, shut it, and never come back. There are other routes into it, though, ones that let the depth of the material actually reach you.

Erik: That's wonderful. Dr. Strassman, thank you for being with us today. It was a pleasure to hear you, genuinely interesting throughout. Thanks again for taking part in A Psychology of the Future, and for helping spread word of the conference among the people you work with. We're glad that folks from other communities will get the chance to come across what you do. I'll reach out to you once we wrap up the call.

Dr. Strassman: Thanks, Erik. Happy to have done it.

Erik: Thank you.