Basia's Thoughts

In the 1970's we had Raymond Moody who wrote very interesting books about near-death experiences.  Then, we got accounts from people working with persons who were dying, and hospice workers.  Now, we also have the material from Peter Fenwick, who started studying the different processes of dying. Based on this, as well as looking at accounts by hypnotherapists that take their subjects beyond...

The method for achieving something may sometimes be quite different from our understanding of the concept one is trying to achieve.  Moving towards fearlessness is not necessarily best achieved by going through ones fears.  There is actually another way that can sometimes be more efficient and very helpful. By expanding our perspective we may automatically remove layers of fear.  And we can use fe...

Since we recently asked if it is good to be good, and found that it is, we now continue and find that being instructed to be good is a trap. It leads us to the belief that our worth is related to our performance in this world.  It also leads us to a life with guilt.  We quickly take a closer look at guilt is and how it serves us. Then we ask if it indeed is true that our worth is related to our pe...

Is it possible that society is currently moving in the "right" direction?  Despite all the problems that we are facing - ranging from financial, health, to political - we just might be on the right track. In this episode we tie together the two previous episodes, on freedom and a new type of organisation.  We look at how what individuals in society consider to be freedom is changing.  We...

Since we are currently in a time when our freedoms are seemingly being taken away it may be interesting to talk about freedom. What is freedom?  Are we free?  Can we become free?  We start by talking about the common association of freedom with the freedom to do what we want.  We talk about what seems to be involved when the have freedoms "taken away" from us.  We look at how freedoms ar...

I posed the question: "If you could ask one or two questions about life or the world in general, what would you ask?  What would you really like to know?" And in this episode I tell you what people said.  And we end up going into two topics.  One has to do with ageing, if it is necessary, and what it may be good for...yes "good for".  We discuss creatures who live among us that...

In this episode I reveal to you a secret question I had when I was growing up.  I never dared to ask anyone, but I secretly wondered if leading a moral life is a good thing. And so, in this episode we discuss just that.  Exactly why is it good for you to lead a moral life?  We also talk about the major pitfall, that most of us fall into at some point at least, where we lead a moral life by creatin...

Today we discuss questions like: What is the underlying dynamics of our Universe? How does multiplicity spring forth from an Indivisible Ultimate reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Does it make sense to talk about the Ultimate if it is not describable? We talk about how Niels Bohr, a physicist, got the physics community onboard to abandon ontology because he intuited an underlyin...

Searching for something is different from finding it.  This is true for logical problems, math problems, relationships, the search for happiness, or even the search for God. Here we talk about what may be tripping you up when you are looking for something, desiring something, but not getting it.  This technique also works for interactions with others.  In fact, we mention Chris Voss, a hostage neg...

I was inspired to think about aliveness.  When do I feel most alive?  Is there anything I do that makes me feel alive? Aliveness arises in me whenever I am able to feel present.  And presence is connected to tapping into the infinite.  We can tap into the infinite through our senses and I talk about some ways that work for me. I also talk about the masculine and feminin energy and how they are rel...

In this episode we talk about defence narratives, how we justify things to ourselves so that we may go on doing certain things or living with certain choices. We take a look at two examples, both related to slavery.  One is the hero narrative and the other is the victim narrative.  One is a historical narrative, the other is a current narrative. The historical narrative is taken from Barbra Freese...

This is a somewhat more ontological type of episode.  We go into why and how being comes from the infinite (Limitless, Wholeness, Consciousness, etc).  Basically we talk about the ontology of things being washed out if we take a materialistic view, and the only way of gaining an ontology is to assume the limitless.  ( Maya has no real existence on its own.  Brahman lend it Being.) The limitless is...

What is your greatest contribution to the world?  How can you reach your highest potential, so that you can offer the very best of you? Oddly enough, this episode was inspired by a flying squirrel, on its way to realising its highest potential as a squirrel. In the two previous episodes we already talked about how opening ones heart, increasing ones sensitivity and ability to love is a path of fre...

In this episode we talk more about increasing our sensitivity and the path of opening our heart.  This is where we left off in the last podcast, talking about how without increasing our sensitivity we have no hope for growth and will never reach our highest potential. We discuss what the ladder of sensitivity may look like when we interact with someone who is suffering and what the most challengin...

What is sanity?  Who is the crazy one? Do you sometimes feel like you are living in a crazy world?  What makes you feel like you are sane?  In this episode we look at the core of sanity.  What is the essence of sanity? I talk about a few persons who I have, in some respects, found to bring some sanity into my life, like Andreas Antonopoulos, Edward Snowden, and Erik Voorhees. I propose that sanity...

This podcast episode is about a general and lingering type of sadness.  It is a type of sadness that does not seem to have any specific cause. If you have it, chances are might be able to relate.  This is often related to the Schizoid character structure in Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics.  And in this episode I will give you a real life example of how it can manifest itself and why it is the...

In this episode we continue talking about what is real.  But now we also take into consideration something that is of great importance to us, namely suffering. Through intuitive thinking we joyfully tie together: Computer simulations of evolutionary perception (see Donald Hoffman ),   The biology of perception, The Amygdala as the Judge of Good and Bad, The origin of suffering, How judgements move...

This episode will exclusively focus on the two quantum experiments I mentioned in the previous episode, but did not explain in detail. These are experiments that suggest that perhaps there might not be an objective, observer-independent reality out there. The first is Wheeler's Delayed Choice experiment, and the second Wigner's Friend Experiment. You can find a link to last year's p...

Science and Personal Experience and Spirituality In this episode we start off talking about what most people automatically tend to see as real.  We talk about what has traditionally been related to the ideas of being scientific and how this has impacted our society and our values. Then we slip into the world of Science and look at what physics actually seems to be telling us about what is more fun...

We start in the deepest of waters. :) In this episode we dive into who we are and what Awareness is, all as seen through my interpretations of Non-duality (Advaita Vedanta), mixed with my experiences and other insights.  So, know that I am not a non-duality expert, but I can recommend a truly inspirational teacher.  That is Swami Sarvapriyananda.  Look for talks of his on Youtube.  You will find m...

Welcome to my first ever Podcast. In this episode you will get to meet me, Basia, and learn a little about my personality and interests.  My personality type, INFJ, will take us into a short discussion on intuitive thinking and I will give you some examples of how I tend to think, so that you may know what to expect.  Outwards it may appear as though intuitive thought has abrupt jumps but seeing t...