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Attraction
Is this episode Joe and Sam get into attraction. Capricious, fleeting, hard to pin down. More than just boobs and bums and 90's pin ups? We seem to think so.
Radical Honesty
Sam and Joe discuss listener Kate's question about "radical honesty". They also get into rigorous honesty, brutal honesty and kind honesty. Links:https://en.wikipedia....
Is there a higher purpose to the universe?
Sam and Joe discuss this quote:Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfol...
Talking neurodiversity and mental health with those who don't get it
Sam and Joe answer listener Lou's question which is:"How do you talk about mental health or neurodiversity with people who don’t get it?"Image: Noah Buscher
Reactivity
Sam and Joe take on listener Liv’s topic about reaction, reactivity and being “triggered”. This leads to personal reflections on responses to geopolitical events and o...
Tao Te Ching - Verse 2
Sam and Joe reunite to tackle Verse Two of the Tao Te Ching:Everybody on earth knowingthat beauty is beautifulmakes ugliness.Everybody knowingthat goodness is goodmake...
Tao Te Ching - Verse 1
Sam and Joe discuss Verse One of the Tao Te Ching and how it relates to their own experience of reality. TAO called TAO is not TAO.Names can name no lasting name.Namel...
Desiderata - Go placidly amidst the haste
Sam and Joe discuss the poem Desiderata and how it relates to their experience of life on earth.DesiderataGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what p...
Making the darkness conscious
Sam and Joe are back after a long break with a juicy quote from their old friend Carl Jung. Myths, archetypes, figures of light, dark caves with dragons and treasure, ...
Just One Thing - Jack Kornfield
What we take to be a self is tentative, fictitious, constructed by clinging, a temporary identification with some parts of experience. Self arises, solidifying itself,...
Just One Thing - Eckhart Tolle
The root of this physical urge is a spiritual one. The longing for an end to duality, a return to the state of wholeness. Sexual union is the closest you can get to th...
Just One Thing - Joseph Campbell
“I have really found when I look around that the romantic love I see is this ideal, the anima. The anima is the ideal that you carry within yourself that you put onto ...
Just One Thing - Alain de Botton
To be a loving person is to wrestle with a profoundly improbable idea: that however modest our position in society might be, however much we may have been maltreated i...
Just One Thing - Pema Chodron
All that is necessary then is to rest undistractedly in the immediate present, in this very instant in time. And if we become drawn away by thoughts, by longings, by h...
Is Love the Drug?
Romantic Realities: Deconstructing the Romantic Love MythWe dive into the misconceptions of romantic love prevalent in Western culture, drawing on a quote from You Are...
Sam reads your listener notes
Listeners are producers. Thank you for getting the show out.I reflect on my own podcast listening: helpful with insomnia, and a lifeline during tough times. Write me h...
Film
Thinking back on favourite films, it becomes clear what they say about us. Cinema, the Psyche, unveiling Inner HeroesIt's always therapy and psychoanalysis around here...
Bromance
Do most straight men reserve their truest love and romance for other men? Marilyn Frye thinks so, and today we consider a quote from her classic book of feminist essay...
FOMO, JOMO and beyond
Moving from Fear, to Joy of Missing Out and beyond both. FOMO arises from projection and fantasy, as does a lot of the imagined enjoyment of the imagined pleasures.We ...
Attachment
Is Attachment Theory the new Myers-Briggs? NoIs it helping? Yes! Is attachment also about friendship, family and self relationships? Yes!Is it the magic bullet? Kind o...
