Wisdom, Love, and Beauty

Wisdom, Love, and Beauty
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All things Wisdom, Love, and Beauty. We contemplate the meaning of life and love, the true nature of success, the nature of reality, the nature of self and mind, the nature of health and healing, the essence of beauty, the need for sacredness, the unity of mind and nature, how we can take steps toward a more vitalizing ecology of mind and a more skillful and realistic mind of ecology, and more.

  1. EPISODE 1

    The Monster No Human or God Can Resist

    What is the force no human or god can resist? Why might it seem like a monster? And what does it have to do with our workaday life?

    37 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    The Biggest Bite of Knowledge Fruit

    What is the biggest bite of knowledge fruit humanity has ever taken? How would pausing to genuinely savor and then metabolize that juicy bite change the way we live and work?

    27 min

  3. EPISODE 3

    The Most Complex Structure of Your Mind

    The brain is sometimes called the most complex structure in the known universe. Somehow or other, that brain is related to our mind. What is the most complex structure of the mind? And what is its affect on our lives?

    26 min

  4. EPISODE 4

    The Insidious Captain Clock and His Mechanized Conquest of the Soul

    In our culture, we have placed a set of habitual notions about time on top of the soul’s instincts and intuitions about rhythm and temporality. The physicist David Bohm said that, “. . . every thought assumes time. Whether we discuss thought or anything else, we always take time for granted. And we take for granted the notion that everything exists in time. We don’t take for granted that time is an abstraction and a representation, but we take for granted that time is of the essence—reality—and that everything is existing in time, including thought.” What if we have some very unskillful notions about time? What if the evolution of our culture depends on shifting our relationship with time?

    40 min

  5. EPISODE 5

    The Backward Step

    How do we move forward in our lives? Maybe you have some problem or challenge in your personal life, or in your professional life. Or maybe you can sense the general stuckness of humanity, and maybe you even take that to be your own stuckness. Given all the confusion of the world, all the fear and uncertainty within our own soul and in the soul of the world, how can we find genuinely creative and beautiful ways to cultivate our lives forward, and cultivate the life of the world forward at the same time? The answer lies in stepping forward and backward at the same time/

    31 min

  6. EPISODE 6

    The Artefact

    An inquiry into the nature of habit and freedom, the meaning of life, and how we can do our jobs and live together while feeling good in our mind, heart, and body, and feeling good about ourselves, about how we are living and loving.

    42 min

  7. EPISODE 7

    The Self-Help Catastrophe Part 1

    Why self-help might not be working for you, and what to do if you think it IS . . . The self-help-industrial complex is huge. Whether you consider yourself a self-help junkie, a self-help fan, or a self-help critic, contemplating the self-help catastrophe will shed light on our cultural and ecological emergency.

    56 min

  8. EPISODE 8

    The Self-Help Catastrophe Part 2

    In part an addendum to the first contemplation on the self-help catastrophe. But this addendum is also its own contemplation, since we will consider some important topics, like spiritual materialism and systemic incoherence. Another installment in the series of contemplations to understand the self-help catastrophe, and to find ways out of it.

    39 min
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All things Wisdom, Love, and Beauty. We contemplate the meaning of life and love, the true nature of success, the nature of reality, the nature of self and mind, the nature of health and healing, the essence of beauty, the need for sacredness, the unity of mind and nature, how we can take steps toward a more vitalizing ecology of mind and a more skillful and realistic mind of ecology, and more.

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  • Creator
    Wisdom, Love, and Beauty
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © copyright 2019, nikos patedakis
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