Stacie and Jeff Mallinson

Protect Your Noggin

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Hosts are Stacie Mallinson (educator, death doula and yogini) and Jeff Mallinson (D.Phil., Oxford, historian of philosophy and religion). This is usually a conversation with the news in one hand and the Tao Te Ching in the other, but the history of ideas and the wisdom of various traditions are also regular topics.

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Stacie and Jeff Mallinson

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S1E3 Shame Guilt and the Shadow Self 07.10.2019 2:02:24

How the wolves tend to deny guilt but sling shame, but also how to have compassion but be wary of those wolves whose lives are a riddle. First segment: a discussion of the main theme and the distinction between shame and guilt, along with another story of Jeff getting knocked unconscious by a bully. Second Segment: discussion of a powerful lecture from Carl Gustav Jung to Swiss clergy, starting a...

S1E2 Discernment versus Judgment and Why Some Don't Report Religious Abuse 30.09.2019 1:52:36

For the first segment, Stacie shares her background in American evangelicalism: the good, bad, and ugly. Then she explains why she got into yoga. The second segment (about an hour in) is an in depth discussion of research related to the psychological reasons people either minimize abusive behaviors or fail to report them. The most important thing here is that the research suggests that protocols...

S1E1 Introduction 19.09.2019 1:43:56

Welcome to our first episode. Segment 1: We'll share a bit about our backstory, focusing this time on Jeff's story (Stacie's will be on episode 2). Segment 2: We discuss research from Donald Capps that relates bad forms of religious education to torment in students. Segment 3: We address a listener call about leaving a religious group. We offer and receive lessons in outfoxing religious wolves ref...