In this episode I try to crystalize the idea of "Perspectival Space" as a model of reality.

This episode is audio-only - there is no video version. I like this format and will likely use it more in the future.

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📈 "All emotional topography is sum-zero?" 📉

If so, should I be concerned that I've been feeling pretty good lately?

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“Each of you is perfect the way you are ...

and you can use a little improvement.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

Originally recorded in 2017, with intro recorded in 2021.

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🚶Sameness and difference are implicated within each other.🚶

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A self-reflexive, long-duration, patience-testing enquiry into the nature of self and reality, intended bring you the listener along for the ride.

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Four hours of reflexive, relational, observational, enquiring verbalizing towards realizing Big Mind for you and for me.

Originally recorded in 2017, with an introduction that was recorded in 2021.

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4 hours of relatively non-manipulative, non-brainwashing, reality-enquiring jibber-jabber from your internet friend Ben Bennett. Originally recorded in 2017, with an intro recorded in 2021.

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Defying linear time for 4 hours. Originally recorded in 2017, with an intro recorded in 2021.

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A durational, verbal self-enquiry originally recorded in 2017, with an intro recorded in 2021.

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Originally recorded in August of 2017, with an introduction recorded in August 2021.

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The second-ever episode, originally recorded in August of 2017, with a 3-minute intro recorded in August of 2021.

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This is the very first episode of Walking and Talking, originally recorded in August of 2017.

I've added a 3-minute introduction, recorded in August of 2021.

The original audio quality is somewhat poor due to mic-handling and wind noise, though it gets slightly better mid-episode when it dawns on me to attach the wind-screen.

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More of the same, which means different.

Yo.

Internet friend.

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I'll be your friend.

Core

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No intro this time:

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Let's just skip the Intro, hey?

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Sparing you the intro this time.

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“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

-James Baldwin

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Forming a log of vegan cheese

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meat expansion

where the hot wall dreams

is off the slower flame is

mud squirming in the d

rain your hand reached

for is cloud amino acid

framed against a wall a

truck swaying in the

freeway wind a nostril

clawed behind a mirror

your blood was numbered

useless leaking like a book

-John M. Bennett

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More ranting about incompleteness, syndiffeonesis, subject/object isomorphism, etc., through a Southern California valley in which I encountered many wild gourds and tree tobacco plants swarming with hummingbirds.

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"...losing myself entirely by becoming public property..." -Thomas Merton

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Nothing is so not a thing that there seems to be something.

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Take a sharp step

your nose is off

I'm here to tell you

I turned into a picture of a crystal on the wall

get cold

get out

cold-call a warm worm

a warm head

it'll be shoes

driving on a piece of paper

some warm worlds

kicked somebody in half

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"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."

-Franz Kafka

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"The more fanatically you affiliate with reality, the more flagrantly you lie."

-Henry Flynt

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I was so far inside,

so dazed and far away

my senses were released

from feelings of my own.

My mind had found a surer way:

a knowledge of unknowing,

rising beyond all science.

-St. John of the Cross

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The madness of love

Is a blessed fate;

And if we understood this

We would seek no other:

It brings into unity

What was divided,

And this is the truth:

Bitterness it makes sweet,

It makes the stranger a neighbor,

And what was lowly it raises on high.

-Hadewijch of Antwerp

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“In considering the study of physical phenomena, not merely in its bearings on the material wants of life, but in its general influence on the intellectual advancement of mankind, we find its noblest and most important result to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent upon each other; and it is the perception of these relations that exalts our views and ennobles our enjoyments.”

― Alexander von Humboldt, COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

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“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. …. Just as our contrariness here on earth brings us pain, shame and sorrow, so grace brings us surpassing comfort, glory, and bliss in heaven … And that shall be a property of blessed love, that we shall know in God, which we might never have known without first experiencing woe.”

― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

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“The marvelous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at the core of so many errors, so many absurdities, so many words and gestures without consequence, we discover, finally, the hidden perfection of a language.”

― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left.”

― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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"The most beautiful parts of humans have to do with something that transcends 'what's in it for me?', and death forces you to that."

-Daniel Schmachtenberger

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