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Beyond Ourselves Podcast
Приєднався 21 кві 2014
What gives our lives purpose and meaning? Why do we require it to sustain our existence on this planet? Is there a common thread between those who have genuinely found it? This podcast aims to understand what binds us as a human collective and hopefully through as many diverse voices as possible serve as an education for our most fundamental existential questions. My inkling is that meaning arrives when we can transcend our own egos and go beyond ourselves to live in service of others. I hope you will join me on this daunting yet fulfilling quest towards our authentic nature.
The Crust to Core of Anger with Aspasia Karageorge
Today I had the absolute honor of connecting with Aspasia Karageorge. Aspasia is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Australia, a writer, and a researcher. We met at the virtual philosophical conversation group The Net, where we have bonded over our shared interests in all things therapeutic process. This conversation centers a lot around the phenomenology of anger; how and why it originates, why we seem to feel so anxious around our anger, and the functional utility of anger. In essence, what wisdom it is communicating with us.
Aspasia published a recent video in which she delves into anger springing from the recent conversation on the Net around the same topic. These two referenced dialogues are linked below.
ua-cam.com/video/9YjpkWY_JFU/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/W0aW_AtS6SI/v-deo.html
Aspasia's channel is linked below:
@aspasiapsychology
Aspasia published a recent video in which she delves into anger springing from the recent conversation on the Net around the same topic. These two referenced dialogues are linked below.
ua-cam.com/video/9YjpkWY_JFU/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/W0aW_AtS6SI/v-deo.html
Aspasia's channel is linked below:
@aspasiapsychology
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A Pardoning
Переглядів 29День тому
A Pardoning I am sorry. I’m sorry I forgot to water you. You know I promised more times than a few The forest of ghosts bellow in your wake Stems without leaves that keep me awake. Blood drips from guilty fingers on pillows Ears retreat from shrieks of weeping willows Remorse is a whisper in swirling storms Can you blossom in familiar form? I but wince at my greatest failure In my periphery, pe...
Being Good Rather Than Great with @Lucasvoz
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Today I had the honor of having a conversation with Lucas Van Os. I found Lucas' channel because he has interviewed many people I also listen to, such as John Vervaeke, Karen Wong of the Meaning Code, and Elizabeth Oldfield of the podcast the Sacred, among many others. Lucas has interests spanning theology, the philosophy of meaning, and the intersection of art and meaning. This conversation, h...
Breaking Down Poems by Rilke (pt.2)
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Here I read and break down the two poems responding to the younger brother. Poem 1: (To the younger brother) You, yesterday's boy, to whom confusion came: Listen, lest you forget who you are. It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy. You were called to be bridegroom, though the bride coming toward you is your shame. What chose you is the great desire. Now all flesh bares itself to you. On ...
Breaking Down a Poem by Rilke (pt.1)
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Poem: I'm slipping. I'm slipping away like sand slipping through fingers. All my cells are open, and all so thirsty. I ache and swell in a hundred places, but mostly in the middle of my heart. I want to die. Leave me alone. I feel I am almost there where the great terror can dismember me.
Analyzing a Poem from Rilke's Book Of Hours: Love Poems to God
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A breakdown of a beautiful poem Rilke wrote about his relationship with God. Full poem below: The poets have scattered you. A storm ripped through the stammering. I want to gather you up again in a vessel that makes you glad. I wander in the thousand winds that you are churning, and bring back everything I find. The blind man needed you as a cup. The server concealed you. The beggar held you ou...
Holding the Many Truths with Amelia Romano
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond Ourselves. Today I had the utmost pleasure of speaking to Amelia Romano, a lever harpist, composer and arranger. While this has been her craft since she was 9, it is far from the only thing she is. She holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from U.C. Berkeley, with a thesis examining the legacy of the South Africa apartheid. She continued h...
Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose on Belonging Again in Our Modern Age
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In this episode, I have the honor of speaking to Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose. As is common whenever anyone speaks to Daniel, this conversation ends up spanning myriad topics, which made selecting an appropriate title difficult. The title refers to a two-part book that Daniel and his wife Michelle have co-written. It concerns how we can create communities where people can find meaning through the...
The Harmony of Our Parts in Internal Family Systems Therapy
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I recently had the privilege of attending a workshop titled "The Art of Parts Work" which was led by psychotherapist Seth Allison. He led me through an exploration of my parts in an exercise facilitated in front of the entire workshop, a somewhat nerve-wracking but illuminating experience. This video explores the origins of IFS, the perspectives I gleaned through this workshop, and how you can ...
Silenced by the Sage
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An enactment of an exercise that my friend Jake Favor has been practicing. Link to his channel: www.youtube.com/@UCX9A8BMVxMMs2w86gfVrk_g
A Call to Reconciliation in the Israel Palestine Conflict
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Like everyone, I have been disheartened about the events happening in Gaza, and it has, at times, been challenging to keep my faith in the possibility of peace. Watching Israel's blatant lies and deceit to preserve their constructed reality of a Hamas threat that justifies the murder of civilians has been disgusting. This video, through a short poem I wrote and a powerful example of a former Is...
Reflections on the Podcast + My Journey to Making Beyond Ourselves
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Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Beyond Ourselves! You can see my face now! If you think I just have a face for radio but still enjoy listening to me, feel free to return to your favorite podcast platforms but if the video component enhances the quality for you, enjoy all future episodes on here. If you are curious why there has been such a hiatus between the last episode...
Anger is an expression of care - and hope. When one has given up hope there is no anger or protest. Connecting with all of it. The anger and pain and unmet need that gives rise to the anger must all be experienced and expressed. Fascinating conversation.
Thanks so much for checking it out, Patricia. I couldn't agree more about the link between hope and anger.
Fantastic conversation. I love all the layers!
Thank you for listening Seth! I always value your presence at the Net and am touched you took the time to tune in. I hope you are well.
@@beyondourselvespod Yes, doing well! This conversation was a nice cross-over with previous conversations between myself, Aspasia and Daniel - all as duos, but the 3 of us will pick it up again tomorrow. Your conversation here helps me warm up to that!
Thanks, Seth! What a wonderful, wild world of connections this place is... can't wait to talk to all of you again.
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This was outstanding, and it was a privilege to hear you two in discussion. Aspasia’s point on how anxiety pushes down while anger pushes up, and how anxiety and anger can then collide and cause all sorts of trouble when we don’t have a healthy understanding about anger-that was really powerful. I also really appreciated you, Michael, sharing your story, which really brought out the importance of conversations like this one. I agree that anger brings out this Gordian knot of emotions that we can’t easily name, leading to us wanting to pretend like we don’t feel the anger, which leads to trouble. My mind keeps orbiting anger as some kind of revelation about how we can motivate ourselves so suddenly and powerfully from out of nowhere; in anger, we feel like we can do anything (for bad). A good form of this can be seen in drive, when we feel like we can do anything (for good, for overcoming, etc.). My mind keeps orbiting that…I also really felt when Aspasia was speaking how the ability to “just notice the feeling” of anger is basically a superpower at the heat of human agency. Again, thank you both for this discussion and space. It was wonderful.
Yes, I love you teasing out the all consuming nature of anger and how it seems to override our rationality. I wonder how different the mechanisms for how anger seems to take over as the flow state in which we feel like we could do anything (for good? or is it always for good?) basically the differences in states that we find ourselves in where we feel liberated from the constraints of everyday consciousness and what creates the disparities in what we place our attention on doing as a result. Thank you for listening to this conversation and for your in depth response. And thank you for being the reason that I got to meet such an amazing soul like Aspasia!
This was such a wonderful discussion, and South Africa is near and dear to our heart! I love what Amelia said about being “too naïve to be careful but too cautious to be dumb”-that’s a great orientation to life! I also loved the reflections on music and “just being in the sound.” Wonderful from you both!
I'm so touched that you listened to this! I absolutely loved this conversation and have been meditating on its many jewels. She made so many interesting distinctions like between naïveté and dumb and heart and soul. I really encourage you to listen to her music!
@@beyondourselvespod It was wonderful, and I'll absolutely check out her music! Looking forward to it.
Thank you for sharing your experience Michael. I also have these conflicting parts. I'm curious if and how they were present for the recording of this video?
Thank you for your comment Jacob! I also really appreciate the question. There was certainly a part that I suppose could be a protector that was trying to minimize my experience, saying things like “this isn’t important or interesting enough to warrant a video” and generally trying to take me out of the moment of recollecting my experience. Although I will say I did feel quite integrated when speaking here which I’m happy to say❤️