The Ginger Bread Man

Hello my friends!  This week I would like to discuss the concept of time through a Buddhist and existential Lense. This is a deep one guys, but I don't think any of you are averse to the deep end. I will also be further elucidating some terms from Sartre's Existentialism such as Being-In-Itself and Being-For-Itself. I'm on shaky ground here because I barely understand it myself, but I tried! Let's...

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back, I am really glad to have you here with me, Sincerely! This week I want to talk more about how we interact with our Psyche, including some of the different facets (faculties?) that have a part to play such as Personality and Unconscious. I happen to be particularly fascinated with Psychedelic compounds and substances that have the ability to change how we perceive re...

Hello Friends! Welcome back to my show! This week I would like to discuss polarity, another aspect of Duality. And what is Duality? The Nature of the Universe, or so it seems. Everything has an Off/On, Up/Down, Hot/Cold, Is/Isn't, and the list goes on Ad infinitum. But when we look really closely at any of these attributes, aren't they all describing the same thing. If something is bigger than som...

Hello My Friends!  I very much Appreciate your Patience! Challenging times, But I LOVE talking to you. So thankyou for showing up! This week I would like to again discuss the values of Introspection, especially when it comes to looking at and analyzing cycles in our lives. Then I would like present a buddhist Idea called Non-Duality, specifically the doorway to Non-Duality.. If you stick to the en...

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! Happy New Year! Apologies ahead of time for Poppy-Audio, I am using a cheap cord right now that I don't usually have, and whilst doing the very small amount of Lazily done editing I immediately noticed it! Will be working on improving that.. Anyways! This week I want to discuss Boundaries! What do we need to consider when we may be OverExtending? Why is it important...

Hello Everyone! I hope you are doing well, it's great to be getting back to feeling well myself! This week I want to return to one of my favorite topics: Sleep, Dreaming, and Altered States of Consciousness! How are these all connected? I do see some obvious ones.. How do you experience your dreams? What does it feel like when your on the edge of falling Asleep? Do you every Day Dream? This and Mu...

Hello my Dear Friends! How are you this fine Day? This week I want to talk about to pet ideas of mine. These are old ideas, but I don't mind recircling around valuable methods of self discovery. Especially in my own work. What is a Figment of our Imagination? Can we Trust the Movies we make in our heads about the future? Then I want to discuss Joy. Not pleasure, not Euphoria. But, what is that fee...

Hello My friends! Welcome Back! I am bedridden this week, so sound quality may be a little funky. I want to discuss pain. What is discomfort? How do we allocate our pain, do we judge it? How do we apply our pain to others? I also want to discuss a new friendship in the psychadelic landscape. Let's Ruminate! Near the end I have a short reading from Voltaire's 'Philosophical Dictionary.' Y'all know...

Hi Everyone! Welcome Back! I Hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and even if you didn't At Least you are past it! What I would like to speak about today concerns this very topic, often during the holidays we have an influx of planning and socializing. We have our families in town, some of whom we do not get along with. And inevidebly we found ourselves tanked with exhaustion at the end of a long...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! I apologize for my Absence, My Son and I left for Vacation and we are just getting back into the swing of things. I have some interesting stories to share with you about my adventures and ruminations. Towards the end of the episode I will paraphrase a short story by Voltaire :"MicroMegas". Afterwhich I have a very interesting quote on Zen Buddhism by Bassui! Thankyo...

Hello My Friends! This week I am going to discuss the conundrum of Change. If our goal is finding Prescence in the here and now, what is the nature of that Here and Now? If we are used to finding comfort in stability, maybe we will be rudely awakened when we find no firm ground to stand on. I will also be discussing the end of Plato's Republic which concerns his very exciting description of what h...

Hello All! Welcome back to my little corner of the Universe.. Or is it all of It? Or Both? Hard to say as a human, stumbling around trying to make meaning out off all of these interesting knowledge-bits. What a lovely quest to be on though! Would You like to Join Me? This week I want to return to the topic of "What is Natural?" What is "Nature"? Are WE part of it, or are we the ARTificial? Can we...

Hello My Friends! This week I would like to discuss some of Plato's ideas. Plato being a philosopher of Greek's Hellenistic Period. Why do we do what we do? What makes something Right and Good? Behind the subjectivity of opinion, is there away to benefit the most? How would you redesign a country to perpetuate the most "Good'? This and much, much more on "The Ginger Bread Man"! You can email me at...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I would like to go through a Favorite Allegory of Friedrich Nietzche: The Metamorphoses. Appearing in the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the main characters include a dragon, a camel, a lion, a child, and You! Afterwards I will discuss some ideas of Alan Watts concluding with a quote of his from the book "Cloud Covered, Whereabouts Unknown". I hope you enj...

Hello Everyone! Thankyou for Coming! Today's Episode is a special episode, a marker of Temporal Pressure and Commitment! Episode 100!!  I am so grateful that you have been here with me, It would not have been possible without You! Lets get on into it. What does Dependence mean? How about connection? Why do we work Together? Is there an Organizational Principal to the World? Or, is everything Rando...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This Week we are going to talk about alchemy! External World processes tend to be reflected in our own inner Microcosms. How do we take difficulty and turn it into a labor of Love? How does control affect our own perception of a situation? How does the unconscious and past memories carve out our responses? How do we reach out, to the outside, for help? This and much...

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to the show! This week I want to return to the Idea of Karma: Action. The inherent law of Cause and Effect. Things seem to be attached to other things, at least tangentially in the world of Time. However, when we insert ourself arbitrarily into a timeless system, such as Compassion, can we lose our Purpose?  Giving another Love is one of the fundamentally Human Acts....

Hello my friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to return to the ideas of Habits, or as I like to sometimes call them "Habittudes". We all know how hard it can be to structurally change a well established Habit, but we often forget how easy it is to make one! But, its never the end of the road, and nothing is forever a Positive or Negative thing. How do our value judgements of a situation affect...

Hello my friends! Welcome Back!  We are going to adventure into some dark places today, but that shouldn't be a bad thing. Are you avoiding parts of you? Parts that make you feel uncomfortable? How do you respond to your own Fear? Do you have tactics you use to feel "Better"?  I want to investigate today these facets of our being. There are 4 main "base" emotions that can be blended and intensifie...

Hi! Welcome Back! I am very glad that you are here, this week I have an important mission for you! You can email me at thegingerbreadmansdialogues@gmail.com I will always appreciate your attention and ears! I hope you have a great week! Photo Credit:  Timo Müller on Unsplash

Hello My Friends! I am heading off to the woods in a few and that got me thinkin... I know, I know people it doesn't take much with the Ginger Bread Man to get the old noggin swinging.. But how often do you consider your connection to the World? What is Nature? Is it really so separate from who we think we Are? This and Much, Much more on Today's Show! Happy Sunday! You can email me at thegingerbr...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to focus on Self-Focused Inner Work. Last week I left you all with the considerations of how it feels when you are working with a team where some members may not be as "involved" as you might wish.. How does that make you feel? Does it reek of Fairness, or Unfairness? How would you feel, in your moment of irritation, If I told you the Key to the Iss...

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! Take a seat over there by the fire and make yourself comfortable. It's story time! This week I want to dally into some dark topics.. What is the purpose of our discomfort? Why do we have so many feelings, with so much nuance? Do you prefer some to others? How do we learn from difficult circumstances? This and much, much more on "The Ginger Bread Man"! Thankyou so mu...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! Weather has been getting strange in my neck of the woods, with my dry desert-steppe climate of Colorful Colorado beginning to feel more like Florida! So much rain has been quenching the dry scorched earth of my beloved state. And this has had me thinking about the connection of our own Inner Weather Patterns. How do we connect meaning when life gives us a Down-Pour?...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to discuss another "Spectrum" of Being. This time on one side we have Novelty: all the deliciously new experiences that bring the Spice of Life. On the other we have the numerous Tedious acts that inundate adult life, and we only seem to collect more of them as we continue on burning through the newness. However, is New inseparable from old in the g...