Lecture 1 The Modern and Postmodern challenge to the sacred. The decadent dichotomies of modernity, and the hermeneutics of suspicion from postmodernity. Lecture 2 We will examine the Desmond’s central ideas about the fourfold sense of Being within which we will start to examine his notion of the Between, also called the metaxological , and its connections to transjectivity. realization of Being, transcendence and God. Lecture 3. Desmond, supplemented by the cognitive science of religion, and religion. Here we will explore Desmond’s account of religion and the experience of the divine/sacred. Lecture 4. Desmond and God. We will discuss the relationship in Desmond between transcendence, transjectivity, Desmond is oriented to Christianity but not a Christian.God is not a substance-subject is a relational non-duality. Lecture 5: In order to answer this we will turn to the work Duns who presents Desmond’s philosophy as spiritual exercises within philosophy as a way of life.