Our Undoing Radio

Are ideas alive? If not, then why do they dress us up and make us smell particular to them? And if not, explain the power of the Star Wars saga.

Is meat murder? Is eating, itself, murder? Is there a consciousness heirarchy? How do we navigate eating others without feeling terrible about it?

We wrap up season 4 by wrapping up our three-part conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse. This one is a fantastic exploration of what prophesy means, where it comes from, and living at peace with Earth.

What is kundalini energy not? Probably most of what you've heard. Maybe even what you were told you experienced. We'll get into it. And then we'll go deeper into what matters most.

Host Jeremy Vaeni shares his personal breakthrough moment about living with Earth. Then, he explains why he still has breakthrough moments even though he had the self-shattering moment happen years ago.

Why do so many of us partake in dark, nonsensical conspiracy theories like QAnon? How can we tell the difference between false and genuine mystery? Would this be an issue if our culture had myths and rights of passage? 

What is this technology-driven, off-world adventure of a future so many of us strive to create really about?

Who are we in this moment of great upheaval? What is our responsibility? Who will we be and what will we do when the dust settles? Will George Floyd have died in vain when the outrage dies down?

Tiokasin Ghosthorse contiues the conversation about COVID, prophesy, intelligence, and arrogance.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse joins us to give us a much deeper perspective on the intelligence we know as a virus.

In a world where we refuse to be moved by catastrophe and systemic breakdown, are prophesies pointless?

Can we fix this world with the same sense of self that is breaking it on behalf of the self? Let's talk about it with Joe Gooch, a man who had a view-changing spiritual epiphany 2 1/2 years ago.

From our response to a progressive political candidate to our response to a pandemic, we just can't seem to give ourselves a break.

When we undo our definitions of the sacred, when we undo all that we know... when we undo ourselves, does the sacred reveal oneself as us?

What is it like to move from the New York hustle to a living, breathing sacred island? For Carol Fong it is a lot like finding yourself and then finding your purpose.

Willy Iaukea is perhaps the last pure-blooded Hawaiian whose lineage predates the arrival of Tahitians around 2,000 years ago. He is the keeper of his family's history and stories. What he says here about the sacred resonates, while turning much of what we think we know on its ear.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse gives as much of the Lakota perspective on the sacred as ceremony as the English language allows, while challenging us to ask ourselves why we're asking in the first place.

Is life considered sacred to scientists, by and large? What about at the microscopic level?  Does it help or hinder science to hold life as sacred? Let's ask Tyler Kokjohn professor of microbiology at Midwestern University. 

If our body is our temple then is there something sacred about form? Can it be accessed through movement? And then what happens when you can no longer move in the same way? Let’s ask fitness instructor Marie Jasmine.

Simon Cox is a martial arts master who trained for 6 years in a Daoist temple in China before receiving his Ph. D. from Rice University. He's here to share with us the Daoist perspective on the sacred and much, much, very much more.

As Coordinator for The Esalen Center for Theory and Research in California, Max Genslen has partaken in numerous programs that promote themselves as teaching the sacred in some form. As a drummer, he understands tapping into the sacred musically. In this episode, Max gives us his reading of our subject/object relationship to the sacred.

SEASON 3 SNEAK PREVIEW! (Full Season begins In Novermber.) Lehua is a Hawaiian elder, a keeper of traditional hula, and a scholar of cultural anthropology, with a focus on indigenous spirituality. If anyone can help us understand what makes a place like Mauna Kea so sacred that protectors are putting their lives on hold to block construction of a massive telescope at its summit, she can. Do not mi...

Nature joins us to close out the second season, on what turns into a special episode that asks, “What is the unknowable?” 

What is the deep, singular reason some of us say we like animals more than people?

When we’re at war within we go to war with each other and we parse words to pretend like we’re not all in this together.