The Almighty Ohm

I discuss misunderstanding in philosophy and Identity. How important narrative theory is, but it must be beneficial, but does not need be true. Trust is not certainty. We must embrace the possibility that there may never be

I ask my teacher about doubt. I share insights from Swami Vivekananda, my Acharya, St John of the Cross, Nietzsche, Jung, and many more. What is it that sustains in the face of a Disconnection from our purpose, from our meaning, from our value. Where do we turn when passion and hope fails? Is there a lesson in doubt?

I discuss a complete fail in logic and reason from a recent discussion about knowing the self... Doubt is a greater guide than confidence...

    So, in this episode I outline my plans to read Carl Jung's 'Answer to Job'.     I'll just quote from the introduction of the 2010 edition: "the overall theme of the book is how Jung regains his soul and overcomes the contemporary Malaise of spiritual alienation."     What is, if I wasn't dead on, I explained in this podcast.   Before I even opened the books, these two editions of 1952 and the...

Outline of the best selling book about depression: "darkness visible, a memoir of madness". Also discussed are Carl Jung and his Liber Novus, Nietzsche's eternal recurance and Zarathustra, William James' the varieties of religious experience and his 'sick souls'. St John of the Cross and the obscure night of the soul. The aridity of experience. What does one do when we are disconnected from anythi...

I share a review of an app this morning that got me thinking about how often we trade what we need for what we think we want when the two should coincide

I share some insights. At first I thought it was healing a disease, then it was healing a trauma. I realized it was healing this disconnect. Finally this unity of the opposites, this reversal to the opposite. Whatever you want to call it, this realization that it's a disconnect not just from ourselves, and from each other, from our community, but most importantly it's dissociation from our burden....

I share an idea, a book club but for meaning, for meaningful books, and I got this crazy idea originally... and this is what I'm sharing is the voice note. Originally the idea was simply to help others with the books that I had already used for self-inquiry, but now the importance of community meets with a book club that meets the community that meets self-inquiry...

**low/poor audio is for the first 22 minutes only.** So this morning I share some of my personal background with trauma. Both my history and having read every book on trauma. I've done most of the courses, I mean I have a number of doctors that I'm directly in contact with therapists, and even monks, scholars... but I just wanted to share what is 'the tragedy of trauma'? Why the name change? What...

I discuss some takeaways from a number of interviews recently that I was watching. Interviews that all seem to tie together: Bishop Barron, Jordan Peterson the obscure night of the soul was St John of the Cross, or the ascent of Mount Carmel. But nothing can say the importance of meaning and value better for me than a quote from the movie 'secondhand lions' and so that's what I share. That sometim...

I discuss a bonus episode from that psychedelic assisted therapy Summit. It was beautiful, a number of theories, connections that we can see between all these different protocols. The only disconnect seems to be the words, or the terms, or the style in which they present the information. A big takeaway is: it looks like they're learning some of the problems that were in mindfulness based therapy,...

*In my opinion, here is the best explanation of free energy theory available on the interwebs today.* Jordan Peterson and Karl Friston in conversation about free energy, meaning, value, anxiety, depression, belief systems, narrative theory. It's well worth the listen from a recent podcast. I share my notes from the podcast and my thoughts about the subject and subjects they were discussing.

A story about how wrong I was, and how right so many are? Is there a lesson to be learned about the truth of the shadow in all of us? Carl Young said that the majority of evil in this world can be traced to people being unconscious, but was he wrong? Are they willfully unconscious, willfully ignorant? I wonder because, as I sit here, if he was more right about the truth: what we hate in others is...

I discuss the importance of seeing the self in others, and the other in the self. Nearly every philosophy, religion, and therapy. From India, to the Abrahamic faith, Nietzsche to Jung all understand this truth. We must see each other as a we/us rather than a them/us. Isa Upanishad. Sutra 6. Koinonia. Upekkha. Equanimity. Healing and hope comes from community as much as oneself. Without a community...

I discuss the third day of a class on the Goddess. I share the insights, the truth of connection, unity of the opposite. More importantly it's this commitment, confidence, and devotion to our path, or our practice, or whatever it is we are doing that is the connection we're missing. Not just to each other but to what we do, who we are, where we're going, and where we've been.

I share some insights found in this documentary. Psychedelic healing for PTSD. healing for all, psychedelic means mind revealed. Individuation and connection with community. The self and the other, and the self and the I.

I share my thoughts on the future of psychedelic assisted therapy I just finished day three of what's called the Psychedelic assisted therapy Summit and some speakers most specifically just the future of what's called maps. And I share my insights on what Rick doblin shared. MDMA assisted therapy is in third stage trials but what was shared doesn't sound like potential healing sounds like limiting...

I discuss a psychedelic therapy Summit and a speech given by Paul stamets where he confirms some of the theories that I've had for years about microdosing and psychedelic assisted therapy but he also fails to see some incredible and profound insights as it relates to healing, agency, potential, and obviously psychedelics. Maybe more importantly; meaning and spirituality, being a synonym for each o...

* Bluetooth headset failed for the first 20 mins. Audio is proper from there. I began by just wanting to share my somatic experiencing practice but I ended up realizing the missing piece is the balance between our inner experience or physical experience and our outer experience. This gestalt truth is as universal as the practice of contemplation itself.

I discuss some of the things that I've learned about being aware of your emotional state your physical state and how to manage that but more importantly just being aware of your state how informative it can be and how this relates to all of these different practices in all these different traditions I think they're all synonyms for essentially the same idea of managing our state or trauma A reacti...

I discuss an interview with Gadi Taub and Jordan Peterson. What is meaning, what is our archetypes of God and meaning, illness and being...

I discuss how we tend to minimize the talent behind a self paced learner. How many Autodidacts do we have to thank for incredible ideas. The myth of genius is limiting, but the myth of being a self taught learner is worse? Imagine the benefits of supporting fast learners, who could in turn help the slower learners. Raising all boats. Forget neuro divergent hiring, we are all atypical. Unleash the...

I share the insights in the chapter and my own thoughts. Some great ideas and some lost opportunities. Some real insights to be had for the entire psychedelic and therapeutic industries... What is trauma, what is healing, what is therapy, psychedelic therapy, must it be assisted, by who? Colonial and cultural damages while we could save and revitalize a culture... Lessons need the sense and nonsen...

I discuss a recent episode on psychedelics and creativity I share some insights found in the program as well as some missed opportunities. Insight and consciousness, self and other.... I also share some personal experience with entheogens. *A trip report with the subject in mind.

I discuss a recent podcast with scientists about psychedelics, healing, creativity... potential. Most importantly they end up sharing that some of my off-the-wall theories that I've had for years: might actually be closer to the truth than what we currently hold to be true. What is the nature of mind revealing, which is what psychedelic means, and entheogens: can they be the key or does the key li...