Podcast Benomtad

Focus, the Flow State and Meaningful Experience (Clip)

LL has a hard time taking in podcasts when she’s working out, and we expand the conversation to focus in other realms, including art and spirituality.  
 
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An Archipelago of Humanity (Clip)

I ask LL what she feels about the meaning crisis.  She says we feel like we’re in a sea, on our own islands.  People are disconnected, uninterested in interacting with each other.  Tech has a role in this.  
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Modern Disillusionment and the Meaning Crisis (Clip)

Modern Disillusionment and the Meaning Crisis (Clip)
I like how John Vervaeke tries to describe how we got into the meaning crisis, going from the Aristotelian scientific to the modern worldview.  I mention other disillusioning experiences and feeling cast out.
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Understanding “Mindfulness,” a Kind of Remembering (Clip)

In “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” Vervaeke unpacks terms we use, including mindfulness, translated from “sati,” which is a kind of remembering.  This is a bruited-about word, but Vervaeke points out we have a lot of vagueness and confusion around it.  He tries to provide a definition, which is not a feature list, as we often do when we try to define mindfulness.  Vervaeke tries to provide a structural-functional account, like Plato’s eidos. 
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Exploring Our Interests and What to Do with Them (Clip)

Continuing our talk about our interests, I ask about what she’d like to do with her free time in the future related to her interests in aliens and other things.
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Brief Reflections on our Lives so Far (Clip)

After watching “Hillbilly Elegy,” the movie based on JD Vance’s memoir, as well as a podcast with the very accomplished Johnny Kim, I reflected on my life and how much time I’ve squandered.  LL and I talk about our motivation and (lack of) accomplishments.  LL previously focused on school and is stagnating because she did not realize her true interests earlier.  
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Recovering from the Meaning Crisis, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

We start off with a chat where we talk about the movie based on J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, and go on to talk about Vervaeke’s project in Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.  He wants to recover the various parts of the tradition that have informed our ways of thinking without our knowing it, sources such as the Bible and Aristotle, as well as possible solutions that seem to be popular, like mindfulness, Stoicism, and psychedelics.  I talk about some of these as well as my wisdom and awakening ways, like folklore and philosophical dialogue.
 
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Politically-Correct Language as Inhuman Abstraction and Even Classism (Clip)

(From a discussion off the Brothers Grimm’s “Eve’s Various Children”)  We conclude our conversation with a reflection on PC and abstract language, inflating job titles and undervaluing work with the hands.
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Attempt at Magic Using Abstract Language (Clip).mp3

I wonder about the value of different jobs, and think of complex and abstract job titles we have now.  LL says we may inflate jobs to somehow make people feel elevated.  In schools too, we try to raise everyone.  I feel this is part of the increase of BS in life.  Everything becomes enshrouded in this obscuring fog.  
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Valuing Work (Clip)

(From the Brothers Grimm’s “Eve’s Various Children”) It is important to value working jobs, which you could argue are more important than white collar jobs.  Rousseau says the esteem people have of a particular job is the inverse of its value.
 
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(From the Brothers Grimm’s “Eve’s Various Children”) It is important to value working jobs, which you could argue are more important than white collar jobs.  Rousseau says the esteem people have of a particular job is the inverse of its value.
 
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