The Two Tongues Podcast

In this episode Chris describes his introduction on Twitter to Dr. Matt Segall through a series of tweets about the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Dr. Segall is a Whitehead expert and professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has appeared on many podcasts, has authored several books and published many lectures; all can be accessed from his website: www.footnotes2plato.co...

In this episode Chris give's Whitehead the business. He calls out what he perceives as obvious internal contradictions in Whitehead's metaphysics, his attempt to provide evidence for his model by over-explaining its internal mechanics and his arbitrary criticism of "Idealism" while simultaneously speaking like an Idealist. It's not critique, however, there's some good stuff too. We talk about spac...

This was my favorite reading in Process and Reality to-date...hands down. Whitehead gets into the weeds on some of his most interesting concepts: God, the Creative Advance, Concresence and Satisfaction. He also introduces the idea of Mind, which muddies the waters up something awful. I take aim at some of the inconsistencies in his model, but make a great deal of headway in understanding how he se...

In this episode Kyle and Chris discuss the Russia-Ukraine war. Who's the "good guy," what's the end game and why is the U.S. so invested in the outcome. This leads to some comparisons with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and some questionable recounting of that history. Soon we're talking about codes in the Bible and whether or not the composition of the Bible can be said to be divinely inspired....

In this episode we welcome back the great Daniel Torridon of the Onion Unlimited podcast to talk about his recent, let's call it...life adventure. Daniel developed a romantic relationship with a woman who lives on the other side of the globe. Despite the distance and against all the odds he took the leap to travel to see her. They already knew each other intimately, albeit virtually, but the stars...

In this episode Chris gets back into Alfred North Whitehead's "Process and Reality." We talk about our fundamental assumptions and intuitions of reality (such things as substance, extension, time, etc.) and explore how these things fit into Whitehead's process cosmology. This gets us into an conversation about God and a few minor disagreements with the great man. Enjoy :) 

This turned out to be a spicy episode. Kyle and Chris discuss Elon Musk as a modern-day Ayn-Randian hero. We discuss Chris' participation in a research project at the University of Exeter on transformative psychedelic experience. But that's not all. We talk about IQ research and all the controversy that goes along with that. We talk effort versus genetic inheritance, the difficulty in understandin...

This one is the Thanksgiving plague episode where Chris recounts his vicious bout of flu, but also reviews all the great television he watched while recovering. We touch on Ye, the weird, socially-enforced censorship of history and discuss the advantages of developing community in a way that puts the power, creativity and direction in the hands of its members (and not Papa Government). Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle get back together after 2 weeks off. We talk about the possibilities of the 2024 presidential election in the U.S. and about the dark realities of a social credit system. He discuss the value of church, of traditional preaching and of human motivation and manipulation. We ask whether spiritual/psychological "maturity" is a matter of will power or if it boils down to...

In this episode Chris highlights his beef (so far, anyway) with Alfred North Whitehead's model of reality--Philosophy of Organism. He poses the questions that beg for an answer and highlights where Whitehead fails to be clear. Just what the hell is an "Actual Entity"...or an "Eternal Object" for that matter? Whitehead tells us that experience arises from "primary data" and that "a thing" mediates...

In this episode Chris talks about the importance of storytelling and shares the tale of his first successful hunt. Kyle develops several incredible marketing slogans directly off the top of his head. The conversation then turns to a comparison of Kwanza with Wicca. We wrap up with Chris' impressions of Alfred North Whitehead and the integrity of our elections. Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris reconnects with friend of the show--Daniel Torridon--of the Onion Unlimited podcast. We talk "Mind" with a capital "M" and Emanuel Swedenborg's strange and speculative thoughts on the nature of our Sun. The conversation then changes to discussion of our relative accents of the English language. We share our comedic ignorance of each other's homeland, geography and yes, accent...

In this episode Chris dives deeper into Alfred North Whitehead's "Process and Reality." We walk through Whitehead's metaphysics conceptually and learn all the Whiteheadian vocabulary words: "Creative Advance," "Entities," "Eternal Objects," the "Primordial and Consequent natures of God," "concrescence" and the like. We find out what the "Process" is in "Process Philosophy" and we ask the hounding...

In this episode Kyle comes dressed as Slipknot, to Chris' surprise. But, what the hell, it's Halloween. We talk about the embarrassing lack of political, historical and geographic knowledge among your everyday American. Does "Great Britain" mean the same as "United Kingdom"? We talk stereotypes and racisms among Europeans and the interesting double standard in how society views poor minorities ver...

In this episode Chris attempts a psychological interpretation of the symbols in the great painting by Salvador Dali entitled: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man. This was an exercise in the same type of free-association the depth psychologists like Freud and Jung engaged in. In it Chris tries to understanding what meaning is and where it comes from. He begins and ends with the sa...

In this episode Chris and Kyle discuss the culture war, Tolkien vs. Rowling, and then highlight a series of recent news stories that seem to show the cultural tide turning. Oh, and we added web cams to the Two Tongues studio so you all can see our shining faces. Check us out on YouTube...as soon as we figure out how to get the video feed working. Enjoy :)   YouTube: https://youtu.be/_54DwJWcOjA  

In this episode we begin our exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's magnum opus "Process and Reality." This one serves as an introduction to the novel conceptualization of God and conscious experience that Whitehead introduced to the philosophic world, with emphasis on his speculative technique in generating a new model of reality. Whitehead defends imagination as a valid faculty to exploring the...

In this episode we return to Erich Neumann's Origin and History of Consciousness to try and make sense of the Oedipus complex as described by Freud. We take on the strange motifs of incest and patricide and explain how and why they aren't as taboo as you might think. We also explore the connections between our most ancient myths and our experience of being conscious. Here goes... Enjoy :)

In this episode Chris and Kyle share stories about disgusting things they've encountered over the course of their working life. Talking of disgust and interest, we ponder where such feelings come from and whether or not they constitute some form of communication from God (or our deepest Self). We talk "divine revelation" and in what ways man may actually commune with the spiritual domain. Oh, and...

In this episode we explore the ancient Greek fables of Aesop. I hoped to find psychologically significant parallels to myths and fairytales, but I found something entirely unexpected. In Aesop we find parallels to the Bible, we find the origins of many common expressions still in use today, but more than that, we get a glimpse into the social and cultural life of ordinary Ancient Greeks. He get to...

In this episode Kyle and Chris get the ancient Greek perspective on totalitarianism from, of all places, the fables of Aesop. We discuss the role fungi might be placing in cancer and Chris tells us about having a strangely mystical experience in the moments just before falling asleep the other night. All this and more on the Two Tongues Podcast! Enjoy :)

This one is for the ladies... In this episode we round out our psychological exploration of Jung's Archetypes as seen through the personalities and stories of the Ancient Greek gods. This episode hones in on the goddesses of Olympus and attempts to outline the journey of womanhood through the various personalities exemplified by Hera, Artemis, Athena, Hestia and Aphrodite. We see represented the g...

In this episode Kyle and Chris discuss the British Monarchy and speculate as to when having a King may actually come in handy. Derogatory things were said about the French and English (but mostly in jest...mostly). We talk delicious steak and things Chris can no longer eat. Great fun was had by all. Enjoy :)

In this episode we dive deeper into Ed Edinger's "The Eternal Drama." We are presented with the heavenly realm of Olympus as a projection of the unconscious and with the 12 Olympian Gods as projections of our own in-born psychological forces. Edinger describes a "Zeus personality," an "Apollo personality," a "Hermes personality," and so on. He tells us their stories and helps us to see ourselves i...

In this episode Chris and Kyle make a social commentary out of the free love movement of the 1960s and the free use movement today. Then we change gears to discuss what historical time periods holds the most appeal and our favorite period movies. Enjoy :)