Almighty Ohm.

Are we simply living in a simulation because we are not authentic beings? Without honest interactions with ourselves and others... Are we even human?

I share a single quote from Jung that began a decade long contemplation of our situation, our potential, our healing....

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook."

Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Title says it all. What is it, how can it help those searching for meaning and Trust in their path?
A belief structured and rooted in value and benefit not dogma and adherence.

Are you literate, but not fluent, fluent but not literate? Learning is our way out/thru. Thinking, being, an agent. Not an automaton.

Simply we fail to understand how much we are losing, of ourselves... We must learn, challenge, read, and mythologize...

I talk about new insights, a great book and man, flawed: surely aren't we all, and saving worms... ...

Simply the imagination is the activity of the unconscious in the interplay of the conscious and unconscious self. *Interplay between themselves and their worlds*

Hesed, Metta, Maitri, Loving kindness... Words we use as place holders for concepts, for feelings. In this case: an idea of a feeling that is beyond our limited conception...

** Strong language. Curse word.** What are we missing, is it a meaning that matters? Worse enemy to truth, than lies, are convictions. That tells us that convictions are placeholders for truth in the pursuit. Meaning, truth, is a ceaseless path.

I discuss a recent statement from the Vatican. I am unsure if the document shares what they believe it should?

I discuss why we need myth, narrative, and story telling... We build ourselves and our society through these practices. We are born of the soil, nurtured by nature and nurturing the soil and the plants in synergy... We are an Us.

What do we need to do to tradition? Faith is an evolving truth based in trust, to fight uncertainty.

A balanced approach to all things. I manage to get a reference to nearly every tradition... To illustrate a simple point that we must work towards a goal, work together.

Simply the idea that mythos is at the heart of who we are. I used movies to narrate my story, as a dyslexic, my friend used song..... Have we lost our stories in our race to evolve and integrate with technology? **Songs and stories and so much more... At the polkadot door... Let's see through the polkadot door...

Book review or indictment of modern post secondary education?

I share thoughts about a Ben Shapiro and Dr Phil show: how ignorant even professionals can be. The Dun/Krug effect. Newbies think they know everything, but experts should remember what Bruce Lee said; from the IChing 'always remember that another may be your better'. That truism pushes us to be better than our previous self. The only honorable endeavor...

How three minutes of mediation can change your life. I share my favorite insight from a recent book that teaches three minutes a day of meditation for two weeks can change you... I share how short calmness mediation can bring peace to our daily lives.
Life long mediator, once a teacher of meditation, Buddhism, philosophy and history in a Temple/Museum. Healing trauma and serious illness with mind and wholeness. Gestalten and Hinterwelten.

I discuss "I am that". Tat tvam asi. Power phrases, the name of God. Panentheism? Everything is suffused with the divine, providence?

Gott ist Tot? Socrates is dead? Do we believe in our values, our meaning, our being? We only cease to be when we cease to believe in our humanity entire.

Lessons in propaganda, in knowledge vs wisdom. Disinformation and misinformation. If everything is perspective, then nothing is true.

Mythos is the story you tell, formed from your complex of identities, personas, experience, genetics.... Gestalten.

I discuss reading and thinking. Without it we are lost, literally and figuratively.

I discuss a new discovery that may change our history entirely. Stoicism, epicureans, Pyrrhonism. All influences from Alexander's campaign into India? Egypt? Swat Valley, Ghandara, Barikot.

I discuss the real issue of false faith, exposed by people and their true works, most often self serving and closer to theatre than charity.

I discuss how to read, with example, passages in our great books like the Gita, or the Bible, the IChing, the Dhammapada... Comparing Luke ch23 verses 28-31. The aridity of the soul: St John of the Cross *dark night of the soul/Accent of Mount Carmel. How we must have hope, trust that we can surmount any challenge, *that which does not kill us serves to make us stronger. Trauma dries out our will, but with sacrifice and acceptance we can find the spirit to prevail? The strength lies within, in this philosophy, but we doubt our potential and power.

I discuss why smart people believe stupid things. Stupid can be traced to the Latin for ignorance. Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret. We understand these 'things' not when sought, but when practiced and found. So many scholars without experience. Nietzsche again. It is acceptance of uncertainty that is our way through, amor fati. He chose Latin, a little language, to share this intimately complicated truth of existence.

I discuss a well known philosopher, teaching logic with street epistemology, yet fails to understand basic allegory and prose?

I discuss the idea that evil is sourced in us, we are the majority cause of harms in our world, and that includes cancers and other suffering.

How do we move forward? Status quo to potential. Modern man. Healing the modern malaise.

I discuss what is "a higher consciousness" and what they both got wrong about Nietzsche, Jung, and morality and meaning....

I discuss amor fati: love your fate. How to navigate pain and suffering. How to embrace life, to live and be, rather than just do.

The way out is through, said Camus, and Nietzsche, and Jung... We find our path in the chaos of the potential. Our consciousness is our discernment to define the way through the void, as it were.

Value, meaning ... Vivekananda Nietzsche Jung Bible Vedanta Arendt... What is our purpose, who defines value? Hint: an educated, and compassionate we. **Re-upload with better audio.

I discuss Frye and the Bible, Nietzsche and Zarathustra. Meaning and purpose in suffering and chaos. Uncertainty is manageable with trust. Pistis. Sraddham.

What is "religion-less Christianity", how can this idea guide us all, as it was intended.

How do we differentiate between? Good and evil, certainty and uncertainty, harmful and beneficial... Hamavdil.

All the world is a scam,
And we are the marks upon it,
And The Lord wants his Vig...
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Al ohm, jan2024. A walk in the snow. With a mess below, as is above. A pivot, strained and flayed. A balance leaves the universe in flux...

I discuss Niel Postman(how his lessons on watching the news can inform our journey today), how to see, feel, and interact with ourselves and our environment. How do we live within, so we can minimise the strife without?

Observations of the seemingly unrelated books. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee and The Gift of Love by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

*previous recording. Not the best audio..

I share my notes and insights from the Dale Carnegie book. There is a wealth of knowledge available to those with an open mind.

I discuss a book about poetry, identity, self, our names, meaning and purpose... Where are these located?

I talk about the Garden of Eden Eve but more importantly I talk about meaning what it is to be a Christian what it is to be a good person but I use Nietzsche and Jung. Two individuals I've been told, they're not Christian, what is the state of education today when practically every day now I run across an individual who will claim something to be true that is very easily shown to be untrue. The opposite as Carl Jung warned he said if what I used to hold as error guides me better than what I hold to be true then I'll be guided by the error. The opposite seems true today that no matter what may be: convictions trump truth and as Nietzsche said: the only thing worse than lies are convictions

Pope Benedict quotes Nietzsche.

I discussed the book The Power of Wonder but I also discuss science and it's understanding of Wonder and awe applied to trauma. We are the evaluators, we decide value and meaning to events, objects, and ourselves/each other.

Who what when where why... That is the self. Nothing more. Will we learn from our journey, or deny our destiny?

I discuss this personal mantram. How we can be led, and that can give us feet of lead. Feet of clay, moulded to the needs at hand... Biographies and convictions... Truth and reconciliation of history.... Oh what a web we weave... When we deceive..

How I discovered Carl Jung and the truth of universal lessons available when we make ourselves open to receive.

Title says it all. A book review, sales and career advice, and philosophy in one pod.

I discussed doubts, potential, thought experiments, the importance of understanding, of acceptance, when it comes to uncertainty, when it comes to truth, when it comes to science and society.