Podcast Benomtad

A Part of Your Soul Leaves When You Give Up on Getting Better (Clip)

The image of the dark, ruined castle as the unconscious mind.  Then there is a series of steps going deeper and deeper, and silent.  And after Hans' repeated bouts of suffering, the princess is able to speak.  People don’t want to suffer without encouragement.  And even after his first maturing transformation, he is still dependent.  The princess leaves him, which is a part of your soul, the daimon, leaving you.  You’re still secretly hoping to feel better rather than actually improving.  There is a lot here in that story for us in our live, the language of which we translate from the story.  From a discussion on “The Iron Shoes,” by Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth. 
 
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The Summary of the Story Clip:
https://youtu.be/JjqeJVs4cOk
 
A written summary:
https://chaztales.net/2023/01/31/fairy-tale-of-the-month-january-2023-the-iron-shoes-part-one/
 
For the full episode, go to:
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Von Schonwerth’s “The Iron Shoes”

The king’s groundskeeper doesn’t know what to do with his son so he kicks him off the farm with anger.  Hans goes out into the world and encounters a dark, ruined castle.  Inside, all is silent.  Exhausted, he wants to rest, and a woman in black gives him food and wordlessly points to the bed.  Three days he endures torture from dark figures, and the woman, now in white, saves and marries him.  
Returning to his father wearing a magic ring, he is not recognized, and at the king’s feast he feels belittled and calls the princess to prove his worth.  Since he broke his promise, she is gone the next day, leaving him a pair of iron shoes.  He now searches the world for her, enduring a long journey that takes him up a mountain, where he proves his guile and gains magic objects that speeds him on his journey.  Faster than the wind, he sabotages his wife’s wedding.
Fully descended to the station of a beggar, he steals from the reception plates and shares with them.  Her ring falls off his hand and is returned to her.  He shows her the worn shoes and they are reunited.
Ian and I discuss this story of going out into the world and encountering the demons of darkness, of mistakes from ego, of long suffering because of those mistakes, of endurance, of adventure, of loss and agency, of guile, skill and ultimate union.  Please join us on this journey.
About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

The Loneliness of the Tyrant (Clip)

The loneliness of the tyrant.  Swiveling head, eyes leery of plots real and chimerical.  Ian: the need for power to that degree can only come from a misunderstanding of power as the means of procuring some basic need.  
 
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https://youtu.be/0QVFYPmftW0
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Aristotle, Character, Wisdom and Foolishness, Part 2

Ian and I continue our discussion on Aristotle’s idea of Character and the Golden Mean, bringing in other ideas from wisdom traditions and our experiences.  Join us for this wide and deep dive into the mind and reality!
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Realizing What You’ve Done, and Changing Your Life (Clip)

To free yourself, some people probably have to change their lives.  Tony Soprano or an oppressive dictator cannot grow spiritually and stay in their positions.
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For the full episode, go to:
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https://youtu.be/fbq7IX9gPbU
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Aristotle, Character, Wisdom and Foolishness, Part 1

Aristotle, Character, Wisdom and Foolishness, Part 1 
Plato gave us an early psychological theory, that the mind has three parts: a man (rationality), a monster (appetite), and a lion (honor-seeking).  Harmony between the parts helps bring one away from self-deception and illusion, and closer to reality, including the good. Further, Aristotle gave us the idea of character, which we develop by minding the Golden Mean between virtues.  For example, you work on your courage by walking the line between foolhardiness and cowardice.  We talk about these ideas and their application for wisdom, happiness and meaning, bringing in different ideas and stories, including those from Buddhism and Christianity.  Please join us for this lively dialogue! 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.
 

Creating Rituals is Easy, but Be Very Careful (Clip)

Creating rituals is not difficult, but they have to come from a need, and you have to be careful about what the purpose is.  If it is egoistic, self-serving, they will come back to you and could be incredibly destructive.  I think what is very important is for you to know what your purpose is with most things in your life.
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For the full episode, go to:
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https://youtu.be/kHPas6ATmiw
 
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Ritual

Ritual 
Ian talks with me about his knowledge and experience with ritual, which is informed by Malidoma Somé.  This is a fascinating topic, both personally and culturally, as something we seem to mostly have lost but which helps emotion regulation and connectedness to the world, and hence helps afford wisdom.
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About Our Guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Evil Within Even in Desperate Times in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Singing Bone” (Clip)

I question the seemingly pure motive of the younger brother, who takes on the destructive boar seemingly purely out of selflessness.  LL posits he could be a Christ-like figure.  Still, one thing I take away from this is that even when society is being ravaged, one still has to watch out for evil within one’s group.
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https://youtu.be/5QniuM4YF-U?si=h4B58OHvLLl48MzN
 
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The Brothers Grimm: “The Singing Bone”

A demonic boar ravages the land, destroying crops and livestock, and ripping up the bodies of people.  The king offers a large reward, but no one dared go into the forest where the beast lived.  Finally, he offers his daughter to wed, and two brothers, sons of a poor man, agree.  The elder does so out of pride.  The younger, from a kind heart.  They are to enter from the western and eastern sides of the forest to trap the wild pig… 
Please join us in our discussion on justice and wholeness in this classic folktale.
 
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