The Ginger Bread Man

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man! I am so excited to have you here! This week we will be sitting down to a great friend of mine Bradley. We consider the future and modernity, as well as some of the historical instances that have lead us here. What will robots do to Work? What is important in Creativity? What happens to us if we all get a Universal Basic Income? And Much, Much...

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This one is gonna be fun.. This week I would like to present to you one of man's best friends(we have many), Felis Catus! What is a cat? What is the history, how did we get here? This and much, much more on this deep dive into Cat Fancy from Victorian England to Satanic Catacides. At the end I will share a short excerpt from Erich Fromm's 'Escape from Fr...

Hello Everybody! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man This week I discuss my fantastic stroll through a beautiful pine forest where my son and I even found a mushroom patch! I give an update on my new Kitten and use this as an introductory note to discuss objectification of the things we love, wither that be our kittens or our significant other. Finally I discuss some of the ideas of one of my fav...

Hello my friends!  This week I would like to discuss addiction in the context of Opiate Addiction. I am choosing to be vulnerable and share some of my personal experiences with dangerous opiates like Heroin and how the use of botanicals like Kratom Leaf changed my life in terms of the functionality of my habits and current needs. Why do people seek these things out, and have done so for centuries?...

Hello my Friends!  Todays episode is rather special. I haven't done this in a while, having a friend on that is. We had Jay on the show a few years back, he was wearing a turqoise jumpsuit and an animal on his head. Wild Guy, I am very grateful to know him. And this is a First, because I have never had anyone back on a second time.  We discuss Reality, and Feelings, and Purpose, and Much, Much, Mo...

Hello My Friends! I hope you are doing well, I am so grateful for you showing up this week! On this episode I will be discussing what is Real. This time(old topic) through the lense of our Technology. Of course there are some glaringly obvious Modern Technologies that can be of concern. Yet I argue that our words, and our thoughtful words as well, are the base technology that we use to symbolize,...

Hello My Friends! Welcome to my Home! This week has been a rollercoaster, I swear I have felt literally every emotion. As always, these are Important Lesson in disguise. What are the connections between Loss and Death, does all Grief have a common backbone. This week I lost one of my best friends, my Kitty Shefu, but I found her! So no sad endings, but I learned alot from the mental process that t...

Hi There Friendo! Lets talk about attention and technology, what does technology do to our brains? If you have children do you monitor their usage? Big changes have come into all of our lives, and I feel I can't be the only one just a little bit concerned.. I have been on Hiatus trying to find my Muse. I cannot wait to bring your more material, new books, new Idea, new Drug Synopsis! Consider this...

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This week I would like to discuss something I found very fascinating: Black Pepper and its primary compound Piperine, and the smaller component found inside: Piperidine. What is the connection between Pain and Pleasure, or Pain relief? Isn't the removal of pain in itself Pleasure? What does biology have to say about it? I delve briefly into the history o...

Hello my friends! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man! I am returning from a pretty hellish illness from these past two weeks, but I feel buoyed up by the loveliness of the holiday season! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!  This week I would like to discuss Neanderthals and the various perspectives we have had about their capacity throughout the years. I share some interesting fa...

Hello my friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man"! This week we will be discussing some fun stuff. First, I would like to give you 6 Practical things you can do to help improve your Dream Recall and potentiate Lucid Dreaming. I have never been Lucid in a Dream, Yet.. But I have been able to recall far more dreams with some of these easy practices. All of these Ideas I got from Stanford Rese...

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" I am so grateful that you are here!  This week we continue on with my obsession with dreams. Lucid dreams in particular. What even is a Lucid Dream? For starts there is a world of difference between 'recalling' a dream and being Aware in one. One is accessible by Memory, the other way by Experience. I cannot overstate enough how fascinating...

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man!  This week we will consider some real world effects of duality, as well as considering more ideas about existentialism. Towards  the end I discuss some western philosophy from P.D. Ouspensky, specifically is Tertium Organum. What even is the fourth dimension?  This and much, much more... Have a great Week! If you would like to talk about anythi...

Hi!! I am so glad to be back, glad to have you hear with me, and glad to be feeling strong and vibrant! This week we will be discussing Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness and some of the ideas inside. This was a book published by the Theosophical Publishing House. I found this intriguing, being that this group cocreated by Madame Blavatsky has had alot of wackadoodle Ideas in the past. But thi...

Hello my friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man"!  This week I would like to discuss the relationship between Attention and Pain. There are other key words that could apply to this subject, such as Obsession and Health Anxiety. For the last year I have had to learn how to live with and accept the uncomfortableness of my vessel. I would like to share with you some of the insight I have had...

Hello my friends! Welcome back to the show!  This week we will be discussing some of the principles of Microdosing, the trendy method of taking small indescriminate amounts of our chosen medicine. Why would we do such a thing? I talk about one of my favorite utilizations. I hope you enjoy the rumination!  Afterwards I will read a brief section from my favorite Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations"!  You...

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This week we will be discussing Muscimol, the alkaloid that holds benefits in the Aminita Muscaria, also known as Fly Agaric. With a nasty reputation that doesn't seem to hold water, I find it suspicious that I didn't know more about it, seeing that it grows here in my home state of Colorado. I break down the pharmacology, cultural use, and basic princip...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I will start out by discussing a new plant of Interest, the very Beautiful Blue Lotus. Afterwards we will dive headfirst into some ideas from the ancient world. Natural Philosophy was Science's Grand Pappy, before we new what to call it. People who thought about the Earth, and natural processes, were such philosophers. Most notably, Socrates, Pythagoras, a...

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back to the Show! I am so glad that you are here! This Week I will be discussing the legal "Chocolate" Bars being found all throughout the USA. It's the wild wild west and I have been more than intrigued, lets talk about it! Then I will discuss Ideas. I love Ideas, they are probably my favorite thing. I spend all day long mind blending with other peoples strange ideas, so...

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man", on a Thursday! Woooo! This week I want to do an overview of some of the history and basics of what classic psychedelics are. Including some information on the 4 compounds you most likely have heard of. It will be fun. Towards the end of the podcast I do a reading from Alan Watt's "The Joyous Cosmology", what a beautiful speaker that man was...

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! We have alot of great stuff to discuss this week. Lets start out by trying to wrap together some ideas that have been looked at over the last few weeks. Afterwards I present to you some of the dominant ideas in Lucretius's Epicurean Atomism, which has alot of parallels to the quantumn mechanics modern science stuff I have been investigating recently. Thi...

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! I am very excited to be back after my small Hiatus. Odin and I have been busy with various rituals from a Wedding, to a Concert, to learning how to evaluate and commit to Self-Care! I would like to share some stories with you and then philosophize about the relatable aspects of finding satisfaction in all of our lives. What is the difference between Plea...

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back to "The Ginger Bread Man!"  This week I want to dig into Science a little bit. I spent alot of time being Staunchly anti-science, regrettably, that I have only recently returned to reading more scientific material. I have been reading a book called "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra, whom I unfortunately called 'Frank' in the episode because I am dumb. This and Sa...

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" This week I will be discussing some older concepts from the show including how we have some degree of control over bodily processes, especially when it comes to slowing ourselves down and speeding ourselves up! This also ties into our interconnectedness with the rest of the world. Towards the end of the show I share an excerpt from Aldous H...

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to my Show, I am really glad you are here!  This week I vent a little bit about my frustrations with The Business Mindset, A classical argument between Materialism and the Formless develops as a I describe what it is like to encounter change in our lives. What parts of our being are Resistant to New Things?  Afterwards I break apart Verse 42 from Brook Ziporyn's Daod...