The Three-Headed Man

THE THREE-HEADED MAN recounts a request from an acquaintance who wants advice on his wish to end his life with assisted suicide. This experience leaves the boys questioning their own soon-to-be-a-reality death, and they ask: how can one die with dignity? To understand death, THE THREE-HEADED MAN recalls the death of their fathers and grandfathers. The podcast ends with Phreddie's recollection abou...

The conversation begins with speculation and suicides and old-timers -- the chatter that surrounds our life. Boy, frozen organic chickens are expensive. Eventually THE THREE-HEADED MAN arrives at this week's topic: What will disappear when we go? What will be left over?

This week the THE THREE-HEADED MAN podcast explores the question "AM I AI?" by examining the concept of associative thinking and how it functions in the brain. They discuss various types of sorting, the meaning of artificial intelligence, and how one can make contact with intelligence outside of oneself. The conversation then turns to the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) and how prompting bo...

THE THREE-HEADED MAN begins by talking about the ability to change oneself or others. From there, they discuss rigid habits and the option to distinguish and accept what cannot be changed. When we get riled up and our buttons are pushed, we jump on a train of inner-considerations and bad moods. Continuing on they stumble into a discussion of G.I. Gurdjieff's notions about being awake and asleep.

What did our parents get better at as they aged? Jimmy inserts the idea of judgement and being stuck as we hold strongly to our beliefs. THE THREE-HEADED MAN confronts his retirement, and he acknowledges that he is labeled as old.

Phreddie retells a story where about a rebellious 11 year old student. This week THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders about mistakes. What is a mistake? What do we label as a mistake? Jimmy tells us that school and religion verify mistakes. What is the difference between "wrong" and a "mistake"?

How do you do it? We borrow from those have gone before. Jimmy tells us that process is a story. THE THREE-HEADED MAN recounts their work processes. Jimmy explains building processes, Jazzy tells us about his painting and drawing processes, and Phreddie relays his teaching processes. Eventually, THE THREE-HEADED MAN stumbles into recognition of group processes. Jimmy builds beautiful stairs and Ph...

THE THREE-HEADED MAN confronts aging and death. Jimmy begins our conversation by calling for help. The help he calls out for is help to maintain an independent lifestyle as he confronts his aging body. Jimmy wants to downscale his life because he is beginning to feel helpless. While he says he has always been "one needle away from death", the reality of death affects his life.

Jazzy returns from a week long Tai Chi cruise with a pair of new eyes. Surprised by how his views of his life have changed after the cruise, Jazzy prods us with questions so that we can help him understand his experience that became a milometer of distance and just a little juxtaposition. Is there a way to get a "milometer of distance" from ourselves without going on holiday?

Phreddie tells a story about trying to teach his primary students that time is relative, then he explains how he is trying to learn Spanish through immersion. After Phreddie's lengthy opening, THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders: do we bring something from the outside,and it's incorporated on the inside or do we remember what we already know? How do we learn? What is a learning process? Repetition?

Tweaking the direction of life? An advocate for change? Self-Improvement? To tweak or not to tweak? THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders about he can change anything in our life. Striving to use time better? Striving for an idealized life? Somehow in the midst of talking about the possible changes that can be made in one's life, THE THREE-HEADED MAN stumbles into death. A frank discussion of dying ensues.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN talks service. Who do you service? What is service? Service is in the physical realm. Doing the dishes...??? Service industries...do we do the service for ourselves? Earning merit. Unseen service and Ego

Jimmy starts us by talking about charging a local guy with assault. His lawyer tells him there's no liability in truth. Opinions and individual perspective. Community communication. Being honest and truthful. Inserting oneself into situations. The boys collectively explore the limits of honesty and lawlessness. THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders whether he should die on the cross of his opinion or negot...

Season Three begins with Jimmy's return....The Original Cast is reunited -- a hearty welcome to back to Jimmy. "Other Beings" is inspired by Jimmy's and Jaswant's work in the Labyrinth's Readers Course. As they begin this course, Jimmy is reminded of the need to connect to and communicate with other beings, and this reminder prompted him to bring it to our weekly conversations. All three cast memb...

This week's coversation begins with a 1990s recollection of Robert Anton Wilson and his ideas about information doubling. With the context established THE THREE-HEADED MAN explores the various types of information: technology, progress, overload, etc... One could summarize this week's talk as "boomers talk about the immensity of the world" or "boy the internet has a lot of information".

THE THREE-HEADED MAN attempts to understand, "what is quality?" It's another tarnished word, and its significance can be applied to God and to Toyota. On the other hand, one can ponder the quality of their life or extract quality from a moment.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN ponders, "When wishing for something, who do you ask?" Who do you pray to? Who ya gonna call? Who do we ask for help? And, when help or good luck has been received, who do you thank? Where do we send our gratitude?

THE THREE-HEADED MAN tells jokes. One-liners, stories, punchlines, and misses.

Can our words change what can happen and/or what could happen? Ordinary words create incantations. Do we have the power to influence events? Superstitions -- "Don't say that, or it will come true." Or the "Power of Positive Thinking." THE THREE-HEADED MAN concludes with a few thoughts about remembering our existence.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN ponders punishment. "Does the punishment fit the crime?" Consequences, Rehabilitation, and Benevolent Dictators. "Gravity Happens"

The THREEE-HEADED MAN shares the misery of expectations. To project the worst, then "Things can only get better..." or to expect people to act accordingly, then disappointment. The color of expectations. Without expectations, we can enjoy the ride. The expectation of waking up....what does one expect enlightenment to be?

THE THREE-HEADED MAN ponders the marketing of spiritual ideas. He considers the ethics of marketing spirituality. Does it cheapen the journey? Selling ideas. Spiritual and religious stories that entice the imagination. Religious stories.

Where are memories stored? Are they packed in the body in the form of knots and nodes and pain? The muscles' memory. THE THREE-HEADED MAN recollects their earliest childhood memory. Rembering the memories with a story.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN tries to understand the concept of recapitulation or they try to Gather lost energy...they consider their last hour of life. Why is reviewing one's life useful? To Recapitulate ... their dashed hopes.

THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders about comfort and comfortable clothing and comfort food and personal comfort and familiar comfortable things...and then, sacrificing it all -- sacrificing comfort.