May This Channel Self-Destruct

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → V6 ~ Teacher Heron Overview Today I share a brief story about a lesson taught to my son and I by Teacher Heron, and encourage us to turn to the Natural world in order to absorb Her deepest lessons. Chapters * 00:00 Introduction: Nature as Teacher * 02:25 A Meditation Lesson from a Heron * 06:21 Small Moments, Many Times References * 01:33 American Transce...

Find Bridge at www.bridgekiley.com Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here →  C5 ~ Bridge Kiley Overview Today, I speak with psychotherapist, writer and teacher Bridge Kiley. We discuss Internal Family Systems, relational practice, trauma, and connection in the therapeutic process, as seen through the IFS lens of internal multiplicity. Chapters 02:20 IFS & Multiplicity10:50 Needs & Shame17:55 App...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → E5: Practice is Political Overview In this essay, I look at the rise of Global Techno-Feudal Brahmanism and its dissociated relationship with the social body and earth. I offer thoughts on individual practices and collective reform I perceive as necessary to overcome the chronic deterioration of basic universal human rights, and cultivate a sustainable so...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → Essay #4: Cultivating Resilience in Times of Change Overview In this essay, I propose that we move away from conversations, languaging, and activities that could fall under the umbrella of “doomsday prepping,” and instead shift/reframe our views and efforts as practices of cultivating individual and collective resilience, cohesiveness, wellbeing, together...

Find Broderick at www.brodericksawyer.com Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here →  MTCSD C4: Dr. Broderick Sawyer Overview Today, I speak with Dr. Broderick Sawyer about skillfully navigating relationships and egoic attachments, practices for cultivating attention and compassion, sex and sexuality, working with the energies of emotion, masculinity, shame and trauma. Chapters 00:00 Introduction...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → MTCSD C3: Dan Grossman Overview Today, I speak with practitioner, educator, musician, and clinical psychology PhD candidate Dan Grossman, who specializes in the study and research of somatic experiences in psychedelic-assisted mental health treatment. We discuss topics in psychedelic practice, including epistemic hygiene and false insight, somaticism and...

Find Clare at www.liminalbodies.com Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → MTCSD C2: Clare McBee Overview Today, I speak with clinical social worker, activist, and Dharma practitioner, Clare McBee. We discuss the importance of integrating spirituality and an anti-oppression lens in clinical care, making meaning of suffering, refuge and unbearable compassion. Sources & Further Reading* * 03:40...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → MTCSD Essay #3: Hope & Nihilism Overview In this essay, I suggest we move away from treating hope as a noun and begin relating to it as a verb. I introduce the ideas of outcome-based decision-making versus alignment-based decision-making , and discuss their application in navigating the detrimental effects of capitalism, and the nihilism it both produces...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → MTCSD Conversation 1: Jonathan Makransky Overview I sit down with Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and Harvard Divinity School’s Multi-Religious Initiatives Coordinator, Jonathan Makransky, to talk (and laugh) about all things practice-related. Sources & Further Reading* * 6:30 Ethan Nichtern * 15:40 Teachers ( Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche , Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → MTCSD Essay 2: Art & Authenticity (Part 1) Overview In this essay, I open a conversation about the importance and urgency of cultivating creative practices in order to connect and preserve what makes us human in the age of AI. I argue that all of us are artists intrinsically, and encourage shared responsibility in co-creating the world we wish to bring in...

Prefer watching on YouTube? View it here → MTCSD Essay 1: What is Practice? Overview In this introductory video essay, I open the conversation about contemplative practice as I view and experience it, centering attention/awareness and the role of the breath as foundational for developing greater agency over our attention and lives. Sources & Further Reading* * 1:30 “Practitioners, I know not one s...

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