Niles Heckman

An Infinite Path

An Infinite Path is a self-development / personal growth podcast focused around philosophical, psychological, spiritual, ecological, and political themes. It consists of audio only versions of our short life insight videos which we record on camera and longer narrated essays. Both which have their own YouTube channels. Hosted by Niles Heckman, it can be found at www.aninfinitepath.com.

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Niles Heckman

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Latest episode

Oct 21, 2026

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Episodes

Not Arguing Anonymously Online For Mental Health 21.10.2026

Not Arguing Anonymously Online For Mental Health Niles Heckman Download There's a saying regarding debate, especially relevant to anonymous online forum or comment thread debates which we remind you goes:  "Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." This wise and hilarious proverb is usually attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, and was also used by Robert...

Value Based on Creativity and Community, Not Productivity 24.09.2026

Value Based on Creativity and Community, Not Productivity Download There is a very old trick by which empires make themselves appear necessary: they persuade human beings that their value is measured by their usefulness to the machine.  The Pharaoh needs workers. The Roman Empire needs soldiers and taxpayers. The feudal lord needs peasants producing grain. The industrial capitalist needs labo...

Why Authoritarians Fear Voting By Mail 06.09.2026

Why Authoritarians Fear Voting By Mail Niles Heckman The mentally weak authoritarian hates (which is really fears) voting by mail because it's democratic - because that particular voting mechanism loosens the physical and psychological control surrounding the act of voting, opening it up to more citizens. The polling place is a bounded space. It has a time, a location, an atmos...

Doomscrolling: The Flattened Schizophrenic Matrix 11.08.2026

Doomscrolling: The Flattened Schizophrenic Matrix Niles Heckman Download Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time on digital content that elicits negative emotion and it is metaphysically grotesque. One can take the most extraordinary instrument ever devised for the circulation of human thought, and reduce it to a slot machine for anxiety. This “flattened sch...

Democrats & Republicans: The False Binary in American Politics 25.07.2026

Democrats & Republicans: The False Binary in American Politics Niles Heckman In occultism there is the concept of binary. Meaning two. One aspect of this basic spiritual teaching is that we materially exist in binary reality. Meaning a two thing condition. For example - of Sun / day / (male) and moon / night / female. And why don't we call our daughters our moons? Think about that. In Wi...

Our UFO Sighting and Real Aliens From Altered States 19.07.2026

Our UFO Sighting and Real Aliens From Altered States Niles Heckman Download In late 2025 to early 2026, we may have done a bit of helping out working on the Spielberg film Disclosure Day. Theodore Sturgeon, the science fiction writer, when responding to critics who said "ninety percent of science fiction is crap" said "Ninety percent of everything is crap". This is one of the most useful epis...

One Can Only Serve Either "Justice & Truth" or "Privilege & Power" 09.07.2026

One Can Only Serve Either "Justice & Truth" or "Privilege & Power" Niles Heckman Download There is a quote in Julien Benda's book "Treason Of The Intellectuals" which goes something approximately like "We have two options in life. We can serve justice & truth or privilege & power. The more we make compromises to those in privilege & power, the more we diminish our capacity for justice...

The Five Types of Bullshit Jobs 28.06.2026

The Five Types of Bullshit Jobs Niles Heckman Download We're going to be talking in the future about the concept of AI sovereign wealth funds, where the people of a country are compensated for all the stealing of their content AI models have done in their training, to create wealth not just for regressive Nerd Reich oligarchic sith lords and their carbon bomb data centers, but...

Why Israel Hates Peace and is a Global Pariah 20.06.2026

Why Israel Hates Peace and is a Global Pariah Niles Heckman It's important for people in the West, like say someone in the UK or US, to fully outerstand the extremely wasteful and massively unhealthy relationship our countries have with Israel. And why especially in those countries, there is this fervent unwavering support for that tiny country of 9 million people. Which after decades of...

Democratic Socialism Saves Capitalism from the Capitalists 14.06.2026

Democratic Socialism Saves Capitalism from the Capitalists Niles Heckman Download The paradox is as old as the ying yang of social & capital itself: left entirely to its own appetites, capitalism develops self-cannibalism. Wealth concentrates, monopolies calcify, labor becomes precarious, oligarchs start raping, politics is purchased wholesale, and eventually the public ceases to feel the syst...

Simulation Theory For Inner Peace 09.06.2026

Simulation Theory For Inner Peace Niles Heckman We sometimes think about how if this is a simulation of some sort that we are living in, from a civilization so advanced it's so psychedelic and thus hard to comprehend, is it designed so that every time you come into it, or soul transit into it, through the course of your life, as you age, the larger material outer world seems to become more an...

The Billionaire Bootlicker 28.05.2026

The Billionaire Bootlicker Niles Heckman Download We once heard a conversation on a radio show hosted by a constitutional scholar, talking to a woman who called in while sounding like she was drinking Mountain Dew and eating Pop Tarts. He brought up the problem of medieval wealth mis-distribution, and he said the fact that we even have billionaires in the first place shows the sickness of our soci...

Expensive Courses Are Usually Bollocks 23.05.2026

Expensive Online Courses Are Usually Bollocks Niles Heckman Download Back in ancient days of higher consciousness we had wise sages in nature on foggy mountaintops who would meditate in the center of stone circles. Now in late stage sugar and plastic plutocracy that has far too often been replaced by funnel marketers, the most "successful" of whom have McMansions on hills. The guru archetype has b...

Authoritarianism is Childish. Democracy is Adulthood. 17.05.2026

Authoritarianism is Childish. Democracy is Adulthood. Niles Heckman Download Democracy requires courage not merely from institutions, but from citizens themselves. To live democratically means accepting responsibility. You cannot simply worship a leader as though politics were a secular religion. You must participate, argue, persuade, organize, and tolerate defeat. The authoritarian temperament wa...

Sharing Your Struggles is a Sign of Strength Not Weakness 13.05.2026

Sharing Your Struggles is a Sign of Strength Not Weakness Niles Heckman Download In the grand bazaar of late-stage big capital corporatism, especially in the US of A which has had decades of Edward Bernays style Public Relations trying to make minds only more individualistic and trained to poo poo social sharing and cohesion, one is encouraged to market oneself as either a flawless...

What We Would Do If Diagnosed With Cancer 07.05.2026

What We Would Do If Diagnosed With Cancer Niles Heckman Download A relative of our wife may or may not have just been diagnosed with cancer. They are quite young. In their early 40s. Like most of us when we hear such a thing and say "we're sorry to hear that" and what we really secretly mean is "we're glad that's not us" we are going to take this one and say this is what we would do if this was us...

Problems Can't Be Solved Without Accurate Identification 01.05.2026

Problems Can't Be Solved Without Accurate Identification Niles Heckman We are living in times which have been the result of many past solutions, but also still have massive problems. One could imagine they are a problem solver wrestling chaos into order, while far too often, much of their struggle is spent wrestling shadows which are phantoms born of misidentification. And one might as well attemp...

One Nation, Indivisible 30.04.2026

One Nation, Indivisible Niles Heckman Download At its core, a pledge is an act of binding the self through the spoken word. In lesser known esoteric traditions, speech is not treated as casual; it is creative and formative. To declare something aloud, especially in a repeated, formalized way, is to impress it upon both the individual psyche and the collective field. In the ancient world,...

"Voter Fraud" is Dogwhistle for "Voter Suppression" 18.04.2026

"Voter Fraud" is Dogwhistle for "Voter Suppression" Niles Heckman Download Christian Right Baal worshiping imperial agent Paul Weyrich said in 1980 “I don't want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”  American full Nazgûl, otherwise called Republicans, (with to be fair - corporate Dem...

Neoliberalism And Neoconservatism Are Both Hot Garbage 15.04.2026

Neoliberalism And Neoconservatism Are Both Hot Garbage Niles Heckman Download Let us begin by diving into a corporatized bipartisan disappointment, both puppeted to us by the filthy Epstein class over past decades, and name the culprits plainly: Both "Neoliberalism" and "Neoconservatism". Different accents, same sermon. Which together have made a rather impressive mess of things. Unlike in The Mat...

Not Confronting Empire is Spiritual Bypassing 10.04.2026

Not Confronting Empire is Spiritual Bypassing Niles Heckman Download The spiritual path is the path of each individual's personal evolution and development. Or change that into saying how one grows and improves through their life. Which is actually over lifetimes. And just to let you know dear watcher or listener, it's why you're currently in the Earth realm. Because there is improvement needed. F...

Alcohol Is A Drug And Cannabis is a Better Drug 07.04.2026

Alcohol Is A Drug And Cannabis is a Better Drug Niles Heckman Download Alcohol is a blunt instrument. It is a kind of biochemical sledgehammer. It doesn’t expand but instead contracts and degrades the fidelity of the nervous system. Language blobs out and can even collapse, motor control falters, memory dissolves into black gaps. It is, in essence, a controlled poisoning. The pleasure it offers is...

Zionism: A Settler Colonial Ideology That Actually Hurts Jews 22.03.2026

Zionism: A Settler Colonial Ideology That Hurts Jews Niles Heckman Download One must begin by refusing the usual grunt and eye roll worthy tired blackmail: that any criticism of Israeli Zionism is antisemitic, being a prejudice or hatred toward all Jews. That vulgar conflation is not only so disingenuous, but has done immense intellectual and moral damage. Zionism, in its political...

A Steady State Economy Over Endless Economic Growth 18.03.2026

A Steady State Economy Over Endless Economic Growth Niles Heckman Download Endless economic growth is one of the great pieces of modern mythology. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the divine right of scumbag egomaniacal kings. It is a story we tell ourselves, and like all powerful stories, it shapes the architecture of our civilization. But let us slow down and look at it carefully. The idea of...

American Christianity: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Psychotic 13.03.2026

American Christianity: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Psychotic Niles Heckman Download Now what we're about to say can be ported into all Abrahamic Religions, but for the sake of this one, we'll use the mental operating system that is American Christianity — A carnival of faith, commerce, redemption, and far too often - lunacy. Like most grand human enterprises, it contains both ad...

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