Existential Rehab (ER)
[resuscitating your inner life one insight/epiphany at a time]
[resuscitating your inner life one insight/epiphany at a time]
Disillusionment is not all bad. Disillusionment is a loss of illusion and a gain of reality. Disillusionment is a liberating grief process that eventuates in seeing reality as it is.
On freeing ourselves from societal definitions of meaning and on taking personal control over what we consider to be significant (“existential nihilism”).
Fear not uncertainty or meaninglessness. Relax into it. Knowing how not to know calmly is a key skill of existentially vibrant living.
One of my childhood sports (in addition to water polo) was rowing. Rowing alone on the river always felt very philosophical to me. This vignette is an existential musing on the theme of an old childhood song.
This video about mindful breathing is likely to surprise you. It is about taking the "work" out of “breath-work.” The video gets at the existential rehab priority of learning to let go of our pretensions of control.
Thrownness is a sense of "being thrown" into this world, into this existence. A kind of abandonment, estrangement, alienation amidst the world's "benign indifference." This "indifference" is but a shadow of "thrownness." As such, it is forgivable. Radical compassion is a key skill of existentially vibrant living.
This video reinforces the existential rehab priority on being here and being now. What is happening is happening once. But we will be re-living it again and again. What you say and do now stays with you and with your partner.
This video will help you “own your motive”. The idea here is to recognize that in choosing to do something for someone else we are choosing to do something for ourselves. This video reinforces one of the key existential rehab ideas that “compassion is self-care.”
We have to understand the jungle that we are in. In this video, we learn from Hermann Hesse. Hesse, in his novels, hides dark, dialectical truths about the world we live in. Here's what he says in "Beneath the Wheel," on the topic of civilization and education...
Intimate Etymology Series is about learning about understanding human nature from how we use language. There is often an intimate connection between words, a secret life of sorts. Etymology is the investigative tool that helps us lift the veil of semantic mystery. In this video, we stand to learn about what it means to be free and what it means to be on autopilot.
Intimate Etymology Series is about learning about ourselves from the words that we use. "There is often an intimate connection between words, a secret life of sorts. Etymology is the investigative tool that helps us lift the veil of semantic mystery." In this video I get into intuitive neuroscience and Jayne's theory of Bicameral Mind as we discuss the etymology of the word "obey."
Atomic means indivisible. Atoms, as we think of them, are divisible. But oneness isn't. Oneness is atomic. A nondual perspective on who/what you are and aren't.
"Are mycelial networks conscious? If so, would mycelial networks run on a software of duality or nonduality? Are we - so-called humans - mobile mycelial diaspora?" - pattern-break questions may lead to paradigm-shifting answers. This video is designed to provoke curiosity about consciousness and the concept of nonduality which is at the foundation of Eastern approaches to equanimity.
What ended the Cold War - an ideological clash or Levi's 501? This video gets at the needs of ego and makes a curious point: “The forbidden apple is the one that is that is binged on…”
We grow up thinking we are human. Humanity is just a concept. A dualistic concept that separates us from the animal kingdom.
"Are mycelial networks conscious? If so, would mycelial networks run on a software of duality or nonduality? Are we - so-called humans - mobile mycelial diaspora?" - pattern-break questions may lead to paradigm-shifting answers.
Miike Snow's song "Animal" - imho - is an anthem of Darwinian self-acceptance: we all slip... because we are all animals. "Humankind" is a construct.
Have 3 minutes? Take a vicarious dog walk with Zoya down one of the Pittsburgh staircases.
A slow walk down the mostly forgotten steps of Pittsburgh's South Side Slopes.
Join Zoya on another brief vicarious walk in the park. Sniff (vicariously) the moment. Perk (your vicarious) ears here and there. Wag your (vicarious) tail.