SENSESPACE

A very thoughtful conversation with my friend Charley Lee, a psychotherapist and a dialogue partner who I enjoy returning to. We follow up our Conversation 1 year ago riffing on lessons learned during our unique experiences of Covid time.   Apologies for my taking up the first 10m of this dialogue. However, its very much worth the wait as we entered a textured, meaningful and generative...

A conversation with Liam Kavanaugh author of Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the Shadows of Enlightenment [Perspectiva Press].   Hope you enjoy this dialogue. We gently journey through Zen buddhism, the enlightenment and Liam's exploration of its shadows in Equality, Individualism and rationality. Liam excellently reveals the complexity and disembodiment at play in the prevailing ideolo...

A conversational Dialogos with a trio of dear friends. We explore our relationship to creative process and faith in the midst of process. We talk frankly about negative 'serpent' self-voices and embody the kind of compassionate not-knowing that has helped free us from stuck patterns & fragmentation.   I enjoyed playing with a new style in producing this episode, including a new track 'Fiv...

~I showed up for this dialogue with Joseph after an intense week. It wasn’t my most eloquent but was a deeply insightful and clarifying conversation for me~   We delved into leadership and masculine warrior energy, exploring what the role of the idea of war, drawing upon its presence in my lineage and my childhood fascination with it. Joseph and I play at imagining a higher order transcendent...

Hannah Joan Smith, my partner and artistic collaborator, joins me on SenseSpace to discuss a journey of becoming -- from her early music career as Eitch to being a prominent english speaking commercial voice actress in Germany and launching a new creative chapter as Mauve Prudence. We discuss depression, visions, psychedelics and the deep listening involved in self integration. As the conversation...

SHOW LESS Another wonderful dialogue and dialogos with my friend Joseph. In this we begin exploring the transformation that comes from crying and the nuances and dimensions that can be found in crying. We consider what it is to afford deep listening and the experience of contraction that can follow when a relationship space is enframed by trauma. A deeply emergent theme here was the role of dialog...

Daniel Simpson is the author of The Truth of Yoga (2021), my first guest almost a year ago he returns to SenseSpace. We reflect on the past year exploring what it means to be in a world beyond our control. How can we perceive potential in the world and what deeper understanding of Yoga is revealed in the Bhaghavad Gita. We consider connections between the Gita and Christianity and the wisdom of di...

I reflect with Joseph Pickens in the midst of our ‘Dark Winter’ about the deeply concerning acceptance of lockdown conditions and surreality of the moment. We ask what quality of life is being sacrificed for safety and how to make sense during this time through relationships of integrity. Lastly we consider ’threading the needle’ of meaningful Game B work in the Game A world; how can we play the g...

In this rich conversation with my friend Andres Pellegrini we explore the deep relationships between trauma, creativity and meaning. We flow through natural and musical metaphors to express the way in which our own journeys with trauma have demanded and afforded the discovery of beauty, meaning and connection. Andres is the host of the Future of Male-Specific Trauma Work-a network of mens groups e...

Really Enjoyed this first conversation with Psychology Professor Gregg Henriques. We talked about his experience leading a clinical program for recent suicide attempters and our broader Mental Health Crisis. As well as this we explore some of his Unified Theory of Knowledge and how it helped him predict a 'Cambrian explosion' in Culture in the 21st Century. The conversation really got flowing as w...

This new series with my friend Joseph Pickens is an experiment in taking risks; exploring raw ideas at the edge of our understanding in weekly dialogues. We don't know where it's going but we're very excited for the journey.  The first part proved to be a playfully self-aware and poetic dialogos. Joseph and I explored wisdom, the nature of insight and the recurrence  of fractal branching...

A meditation for finding solace in stressful & challenging periods. ~This is a practice suited for beginners or experienced meditators~

Dropping In is a Series of guided meditation experiences for SenseSpace. Suspend the momentum of your day, drop in and discover what's present.  ~This is a guided practice available to you at home or on the go-perfect for meditation beginners~   Jacob Kishere is a Conversational Artist walking through the emergent landscape, revealing depth through intuitive & intimate dialogues. &nb...

A delightful conversation with John Vervaeke who has worked deeply both in and out of the academy to understand and respond to 'the meaning crisis' through the art of dialectic. In  our conversation we explore why this practice can be a fountainhead of meaningfulness, insight and intimacy that confounds nihilism.  Vervaeke argues that when debate has broken down we must move into the unk...

A conversational journey between friends that weaves between exploration of what's present and challenging questions borne out of Christianity, the death of God and our narratives.   We explore Joseph's intellectual and spiritual path out of Christianity and map it onto the broader movement we both witnessed from reliance of expert authorities (in the IDW) to collective sensemaking and commun...

The first in a new series of meditation experiences--'Dropping In'. Featuring SenseSpace’s new and original theme song.  Sense into the moment and discover what’s present.  This is a guided practice available to you at home or on the go —perfect for meditation beginners.

Minna Salami aka @msafropolitan is the author of Sensous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. In this broad and artful book Minna gives expression to a more expansive approach to knowledge, explores Beauty and re-conceives of Power as ‘Exousiance’. Through insights from the natural world and the embodied, expressive and poetic dimensions she articulates a power through us rather than...

I catch up with Philosopher-Sage Guy Sengstock for a broad enquiry into what it means to listen deeply to world. We discuss Carl Jung’s unconscious and psychedelic reality. Building on this we consider the very different ways in which texts reveal themselves and what it means for our reading to be guided by intuition. We enter the mystifying territory of what it means to listen deeply to world and...

I deeply enjoyed this fluid, humorous and mystifying journey into complexity with Zak Stein, a versatile thinker and philosopher both of and beyond his time. We explore Zak’s background through the history of Jazz musicians into philosophy of religion and educational psychology. We explore what it means to be a ‘post-paradigmatic thinker’ moving within and beyond existing paradigms. We talk on how...

I talk with Ivo about manhood and learning through relationships and he shares his work at a new kind of thinking organisation concerned with ‘Emergence’. We consider why is it important to take this new approach and what are the more subtle constraints in our existing institutions and processes. We talk about the importance of shadow work when discussing Islam and the West. Then the conversation...

In our first conversation we explore John’s understanding of the transformational potential of a dialogic relationship with world and self. We play with the ways in which our cognition is not confined to our heads but both embodied and experienced aesthetically. Then, building on John’s 2015 discussion with Jordan Peterson, we explore a new layer of the historic meaning crisis ‘the landscape of tr...

Jason and I dive deep into how mediums like Twitter shape our memetic ecology and ask how to exercise responsibility within them against incentives. We ask how we might bring artistic, expressive and multidimensional selves to these fragmented mediums?  We revisit our religious foundations- exploring responses to the meaning crisis and the value of embodied and meta cognition.   *Th...

I talk with Tim about dropping into emergent communities of connection. We unfold the BLM Crisis moment with an exploration of the Memetic landscape, our responsibility to it and the dangers of low resolution sacred memes. We discuss the notion of Soul force as an alternative to contemporary social justice’s material Game A relationship to power. Lastly we attempt to articulate the setting which w...

Straight into the deep end we consider the horrifying quality of beauty and death in a blossoming flower. We talk about the awakened saturation of life that can occur when we shift what we find salient. Expanding on Andrew’s conversation with Daniel Thorson (Emerge Podcast) about ‘Existential openings’ we talk about the challenges involved in discerning and communicating deep truths with others. W...

The first SenseSpace housekeeping on how I am conceiving of SenseSpace as the project develops.