When our dreams destroy us...
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- 0:00 - Introducing the Icarus Complex
1:17 - Example 1: Addictive behavior
2:59 - Example 2: Crash-and-burn love relationships
5:00 - Example 3: Celebrity flame-outs
6:28 - Example 4: Cults & genocidal social movements
7:57 - The role of hubris
10:32 - The problem with deviating too far from reality
13:18 - A corrective: Learning to inhabit the present moment fully
14:57 - Daedalus's secret: Balance
15:57 - Finale: Navigating between truth and desire
hey eric ... thanks for your work ... this helps
And thank YOU, Mr. Junk, for taking the time to watch and comment. It always makes me happy when these videos benefit someone's life somehow. In fact, that's the reason why I make them in the first place. And so it's gratifying to hear that that was true for you. Gratitude. Eric D.
Thanks Eric. Content of this kind has real substance and seems such a rare thing. Each video I watch leaves me with the same feeling I get from having a deep and meaningful conversation with a friend much wiser than myself.
So good to see you again professor. It's been awhile. Thank you so much for sharing.
I believe you possess a rare human trifecta good sir. Intelligence, wisdom, and common sense.
In this perpetually absurd world that humanity has always lived in, individuals such as yourself will always be needed.
Thank you again for all you have given. I sincerely hope it has been, and will continue to be mutually beneficial to you as well.
Well, thanks for saying that, C. In the academic world, intelligence is pretty common. However, I'd say that wisdom and common sense are considerably more rare. However, I suspect that my earlier career in software development has made common sense and practicality a much bigger part of my personality than it is for a lot of my academic brethren. As for wisdom... well, that's pretty much a work in progress in my life. But I keep working on it from day to day. Anyhow, thanks as always for watching and commenting. It's always good to hear your "voice." Gratitude. Eric D.
(RIP Icarus, hardly knew yah)
• Moral of the story: Don’t build your wings with sticky paste
1:29 Addictive Behavior
• Get high • Get closer to the sun
• Feels good for a while, but fades
• Figurative addiction
2:34 Relating to life only to move to Wisdom
3:17 2 Loving Angels, and Reality
3:54 Heaven was actually Hell!
4:38 Ah man that Sun burned me, left me to fall to my death
5:17 Addicts/Addict Makers/Super Spreader of Addiction [2021]
6:07 Addictive Demise
6:36 Jim Jones, Charles Manson, All-Powerful Cult of Personality Commanders
-> Super Addiction moving so many people to death and destruction 💀 💀 💀
8:55 Hubris - Flaw that brings one down.
9:28 Resist Excessive Desire, Too High is Deadly
10:19 Salutary Level of Humility
10:37 Realizing our Dreams (the right way?) soberly?
11:30 Reality comes back all the time, CRASH
12:12 Monsters 13:38 Eros and Thanatos, [Yin and Yang ☯️]
14:35 Appreciating The Depth of The Present Moment
15:13 Guided by the Realistic [Muse, Spirit, Guide, Force]
16:16 Fall In Love with Life “as it is”” [all its imperfections?]
17:10 Dreams can become prisons. (Aspirations can become Falls.)
18:26
All your videos should have at least a million views
Well, thanks, Haniff. As it is, my operating assumption is that the people who watch my videos are exactly the right people to watch them. And so, I'm content with whatever audience they happen to reach... because that audience will always end up being the right audience. But thanks for being one of the relatively few. Gratitude. Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644 I cant believe i am getting response from you :) btw, i have been watching your video so much that i am beginning to sound like you when i speak in my toastmasters meetings haha. And of course, they love to hear me too :)
The thumbnail looks cool!
This video made me cry of joy. Thank you form the bottom of my soul.
Another good video. Thanks! Eric.
Fascinating and informative lecture.
Thanks, Lee. And thanks for taking the time to watch & comment. Eric D.
Thank you for making these, my heart jumps a little everytime I see a new video!
Well, my own heart jumps a little when I make them for you. And thank YOU for taking the time to watch & comment. Eric D.
Thank you Mr. Eric Dodson for your keen insight. It has helped me to understand my own enlightenment better. Cheers!
First day watching some of your videos. I like your work. Thank you.
Thank you for this Sir.
Your videos are all so helpful and informative! Thank you.
Well, thank YOU for taking the time and energy to watch them. It always makes me happy when these videos benefit someone's life, especially since that's why I make them in the first place. Eric D.
Sometimes I find myself rebelling or countering against, my interpretation, of your lecture conclusions or assumptions (eg: fear of death lecture being capable of being reducible as a primal singularity, countered by an attitude of what ultimate fear at one's feet is either intrinsically unique or is the opposite, a fear of living. Perhaps both a fear of death and of living are reducible to a fear of having to let go of a present "identity"? Perhaps that was your point?.) and then there are lecture topics that I just "get". This was one I just "got".
Thanks for sharing.
Well, I would be disappointed if you were to agree with me too easily. The real point is to think for yourself, in your own way, and according to your own criteria. But of course, it's always cool to find points of connection, too. In any case, thanks for watching & commenting. Eric D.
Very interesting thank you 4 this man
love this guy
Thanks for the talk, Eric, your work is a big part of mine. I hope retirement is treating you well. How many pull ups can you do these days? Take care out there.
Ha ha... well, after I dropped this video, I did my workout, which included a set of 19 pullups, followed by a set of 18, and then another set of 18. I was especially happy about the last set because it was raining at the time (which increases the difficulty). Anyhow, thanks for asking. I guess that you watched my videos on exercise, ha ha. Anyhow, it's always good to hear your "voice," and I hope that life is going well for you. Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644 Phew, those are some monster pull up sets in any conditions at any age, nice going. Life is good, thanks, all the "work" of self-learning and exploring the nature of reality and human consciousness seems to release creative energy and deepen a commitment to care for others, be vulnerable and to let go of judgment, and leads to a reduction in suffering. Getting older has its perks. Take care out there.
Can you make a video talking about carl jung and his ideas snd your views on them.
Life is a balancing act, that said, there’s nothing wrong with becoming a monster.
Yeah. Well, if there's something wrong with being a monster, then there's something wrong with being human. That's because the monster actually dwells within each of us. Consequently, the only question is whether we're willing to acknowledge it or not. Anyhow, thanks for watching & commenting. Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644 I don’t subscribe to seeing humans as flawed. We’re among the elite of glorious organisms. But the domains of our existence are even vaster than the acoustic boundlessness of the beyond vertical and horizontal ocean expanse of whales. There’s where we can overlap with time in intention and further the aggregate of our endeavors. We not so much can stand on the shoulders of giants but surf the gigantic waves they’ve endowed us with, for us to continue adding to them. Therefore our monstrosity being collectively constructed through time and space, yet mysteriously individually incarnated in those who venture beyond paddling, into surfing the waves of our collective dreams...
yes mr american dream.. some systems are verry destrucktive globaly..
Great video 👍Take care of your health.You look weak today 🙂
Well, thanks for that, Laraib. Actually, I feel pretty good. But in this video, I tried out a new lighting arrangement, which I think made me look a little like I was on a casting call for The Walking Dead. I noticed that too when I was looking at the raw footage. Lesson learned: Use warmer incandescent lights, rather than glaring florescent ones. Also, I've been trying to drop some weight these days, which probably added to the effect. And finally, it's Winter... so I don't have a tan anymore. Anyhow, since they actually film The Walking Dead near where I live, maybe I can be an extra on the show. I always felt like the professoriate was under-represented among the zombies. Anyhow, thanks for your concern, as well as for taking the time to watch & comment. Eric D.
I'm more mature now therefore I quit the sandpit. I'm not against doing experiences because I am incarnated for that, an experience of the five senses however I see those experiences just as such and certainely not like a dream that could harden into facts. I loathe the word dream that I find very childish and that inspires me pity. I don't wiggle in anticipation for something I even don't know if it will happen. It's pathetic. I'm in the Supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness therefore the illusion of this 3D is not possible anymore knowing that everything is a lie. I don't harbour any personal desires, any intentions for myself and I let the Unseen manifests what It is supposed to. I don't mind. If It's a pleasant experience ok Thank you the Universe and if it's a bad one ok Thank you the Universe. I don't polarise too much because It's a source of suffering. So the word dream should be banned because It revolves around an illusion, sometimes black magic because people would do anything to achieve their ends even wishing people to die in order to get their place. Appalling !
The human race was always superfluous to this universe.
Yes... but on the other hand, it wouldn't be what it is without us.
No doubt it's a respectable universe that would have preferred that the human race not have been a part of it.
3:00
food is good
Does education allow one to move the entire project - including the middle ground - closer to the sun? One of its purposes? Edit: Just need some better wax, like that paraffin stuff, beautiful oil based technology that will move the entire human race closer to the sun, make it easy, what could go wrong?? Thanks for the video.
Well, maybe in an ideal universe education would have that effect. And perhaps it will when we've become a bit wiser. However, I'd say that education as we currently know it is hobbled in various ways, especially since it often ends up just adapting people to the exigencies of the workplace -- or, worse yet, to people's ideological agendas. Anyhow, Proiectus Malus, it's always good to hear your figurative voice. Thanks for watching & commenting. Eric D.
Cliche as it sounds...
I appreciate moments
God clearly said, NO
But when God says, "Yes,"
It can free us quite a bit,
And fill us with hope.
I appreciate
Times when the Haiku Bandit
Visits my channel
@@ericdodson2644
Your postings are like
Supplemental therapy
Without a copay
I appreciate
You sharing your insights and
You just being you
😇
Have you been doing cement work? That stain on your sweater is distracting. I have ADHD
Well, I was doing some cement work a couple of months ago. But I don't think that's the source of those stains on my sweatshirt. They might be due to having spilled some food earlier in the day. Judging by their whitish appearance, the oatmeal I eat for breakfast might have been the culprit. I also made this video in the morning, which would lend credence to the oatmeal theory. Or, it could be that I spilled some toothpaste, and neglected to wash it off completely. Basically, I'm not sure what the actual source of those stains was. But I'm pretty sure that they'll come out in the next laundry-cycle. In any case... thanks for taking the time to watch & comment. Eric D.