In this episode, we dive into the transformative invitation found across diverse spiritual and philosophical traditions: “Come and see.” From Jesus’ call to his disciples, to the Tantric embrace of the sacred in all things, to Nietzsche’s challenge of revaluing all values, we explore how this call invites us beyond beliefs and doctrines, into direct, lived experience. Drawing on the Yogacara teachings of mind-made reality, the awe-inspired insights of Dacher Keltner, and the mysterious nature of the sacred in indigenous traditions, we uncover a common thread. This invitation is not to observe life from a distance but to fully engage with its complexity and depth—to experience meaning, connection, and truth for ourselves. Join us as we trace how this timeless call echoes through different cultures, philosophies, and paths, showing us that true wisdom lies not in theoretical knowledge but in a life fully lived.

What happens when we take a hard look at modern philosophy’s giants—from Sartre’s dilemmas to Midgley’s cultural critiques, and the postmodern unraveling of truth by Foucault and Derrida? In this episode, we dive into the ethical gaps left by these thinkers and explore Nietzsche’s call for reevaluation, Camus’s human-centered morality, and the enduring need for personal responsibility. Join us as we cut through the haze of postmodern skepticism to rediscover ethics as a living, breathing commitment to ourselves and others.

I get personal. Healing, finding, and staying on your path.

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... _ _ 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...

A story about language and ego refined?

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.

I share this insight from Buddhism that I have entitled the ersatz self this fake self that tends to be the source of so much evil and suffering in the world yet the entire world is a stage and we tend to be actors upon it

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.

I discussed the nature of this modern malaise why we seem to be so sick as a society to me it's not the lost religion it's not the destruction of our environment it's the destruction of our society and our psyche. To me the answer is hope and trust not blind faith, not a search for certainty, but an acceptance of reality of working with our Fate our lot acceptance. Amor fati.

I discuss learning from other's failures... healing, auto immune, the lion diet, carnivore elimination diet, auto inflammation, mast cell, histamine, medical knowledge taking decades to evolve to patient and scientific needs/advances.

I share my reading of a book on anxiety, and a real world example of how this anxiety can manifest as trauma. What are you unskilled at? Do not let it become fear... discomfort is not failure or anxiety, it can be a lesson or a motivator. Fear is the mind killer, that begins and ends in the mind.

What is the source of individual identity, individuation, self actualization. What is holding us back today? Identity is/are the stories other people tell, mythos is/are the stories you tell. What are you going to believe? Meaning is found in what we value. **Prime is a word meaning many things. The best possible, the state or time of greatest vitality, a symbol!, a copy, make ready for action(basho, budo), prepare for a situation, of first importance... what do you value? What meaning will you embrace, embody?

Buddhism with a Soul

I share a recent book read : faith and doubt by John Ortberg. How we agree on the importance of trust and the inevitable flipside of faith we call: doubt.

Futurism. Having read most of Neil Postman's work. My thoughts on the quote above and our path forward. How we got here, how it can guide us forward. I agree that Huxley's brave new world was prophetic, and a better warning than Orwell.

A question. A statement. A book title. Martin Luther King Jr's last book. How do we process the truth knowing what we must do, yet the status quo remains? Status quo being how it is rather than how is should or could be? Trauma and treatment in community is the cause and the solution to our 'crisis of worth', the 'modern malaise'. Who are we, what do value, what will we create. Meaning found in purpose and personhood?

Today, I want to explore the profound journey of self-discovery and internal evolution, focusing on the importance of healing trauma, cultivating meaningful relationships, and finding purpose through community. I will challenge ideas such as Jamie Wheal’s “meaning 3.0” from *Recapture the Rapture* and instead emphasize the real solutions: *ecstasis*, *catharsis*, and *communitas*—the keys to healing and connection.

I discuss the error of logic in the secular and religious spheres. Dawkins, Harris, their like fail to convince even themselves, as most apologetics do as well. Meaning is our goal, why do we deny the providential potential of the person? No need for deification, but also no benefit to dehumanizing our experiences.

A book recommendation. By Spencer Klaven. How we can use classics, history, scripture, and philosophy to answer our modern malaise and our uncertainties. *** Carl Jung said that unconscious action is the problem.. not Karl Marx... lolz....

Three books that tell us more about ourselves than we wish to admit. Hanna Arendt and the Origins of Totalitarianism, the recently published book "the psychology of totalitarianism" by Mattias Desmet, and the 1992 book "Ordinary Men" by Christopher Browning. Jung's theory of the shadow in us all, on display. How do we control our monsters within if we do not admit our reality. Know thyself, to know.

I discuss the mayers-briggs MBTI vs the big five personality tests, how they both can help but are also limited, both. I discuss the books Sapiens, master and his emissary, Jung's red book, Thomas a kempis' imitation of Christ... How we move forward blindly, when we ignore or impune our true self.

Are the binary arguments our natural way to force the 'silent majority ' to take a position on social issues. Mores are the source of morals. I fell on this idea looking at applying Nash's equilibrium to social issues.

In a scholarly discussion about Gnosticism... They allow a question that shows the query itself as dishonest and their own inability to be intellectually honest, or to apply the lessons they claim to understand. Is this cowardice or ignorance? **Tran*gender debate in biblical scholarship? Fruitless discussion because we are unwilling to discuss or we have convictions: worse than lies?

I discuss knowledge and insight gained by risking your confidence with contrarian opinions. Why we read, why we discuss, why we should disagree... Wisdom is knowing how much you have yet to understand and learn.

Cope with hope, or cope without scope. Are the theologians and the philosophy of atheism harming our experience and the discussion?

I share my journey to heal a belief in disability and a disconnect from learning...

How do we heal damage while making room for all? WEB DuBois and Goethe share this opinion. Universal dialectic.

We like to think we've moved beyond faith, but are we really as rational as we claim? In this episode we examine how our society still leans on mystical ideas like jungian archetypes to explain history, even when evidence tells a different story. Join us as we question whether modern rationality is just a more sophisticated form of belief. A form of the blind faith we try to distance ourselves from?

I discuss a recent interview with Andrew Doyle and Peter Boghossian. Ideology as religion? Comparing the Heart Sutra of Buddhism and Matthew 14: Jesus and Peter walk on water... Gate gate indeed... Allegory or Reality? Or is there a middle path?

Trust when all doubt you ... Telos or mythos... It is the stories we tell ourselves. That we believe and are of benefit... Sometimes it is the stories that may not be true that we must trust in the most...

***low 🎙️ volume only till 40 seconds in** Twenty minutes on one word from James Joyce's Ulysses. Why we should read and Listen to this seminal work. Why it matters. Why we matter. Why it, you, us, should matter.....