EP16 A New Form of Organisation

08/23/20 • 23 min

I posed the question:
"If you could ask one or two questions about life or the world in general, what would you ask? What would you really like to know?"
And in this episode I tell you what people said. And we end up going into two topics. One has to do with ageing, if it is necessary, and what it may be good for...yes "good for". We discuss creatures who live among us that do not age.
And then we talk about why there are so many apparently destructive structures in our societies. Why are most people suffering? Why does "the Devil" seem to reign our physical world?
This is a particularly interesting topic because, for the first time in known history, we seem to actually have an option! And hopefully, more and more of us will engage in it and thereby create a completely different world.
This is related to a new way or organising - organisation through autonomy, instead of organisation through the hierarchy of power or trust.
I also talk about the wisdom of crowds and about the prediction engine, Augur.
And if you want to learn more about these ideas or alternative organisation, I have written more extensively about them in my book "The Devil is in the Structure" which you can also get on paper or on kindle.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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EP15 Is it good to be good?

In this episode I reveal to you a secret question I had when I was growing up. I never dared to ask anyone, but I secretly wondered if leading a moral life is a good thing.
And so, in this episode we discuss just that. Exactly why is it good for you to lead a moral life? We also talk about the major pitfall, that most of us fall into at some point at least, where we lead a moral life by creating internal violence...which sort of goes against the idea of leading a non-violent life.
We also talk a little about Yoga and Yama, one of Yoga's eight limbs, which has to do with a moral life.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.

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EP17 Freedom

Since we are currently in a time when our freedoms are seemingly being taken away it may be interesting to talk about freedom.
What is freedom? Are we free? Can we become free?
We start by talking about the common association of freedom with the freedom to do what we want. We talk about what seems to be involved when the have freedoms "taken away" from us. We look at how freedoms are taken through overt violence, in non overt ways, and in different manipulative ways.
We briefly talk about how government tend to use fear to manipulate us. Then we talk about how our character structure is restrictive when based on developmental trauma.
Indeed most situations involving freedoms taken away also involve fear. And so we ask if it is possible to become more free by working on the fear. We talk about how true fearlessness is total freedom and also illumination.
We then talk about different ways of working with our own fears.
Finally we end by realising that, actually, we are always free, and our freedom can never really be taken away, we just need to find a way of seeing this.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for the podcast you can contact me on Instagram @BasiasThoughts. And, of course, if you would like to see more content from me do sponsor me on https://www.patreon.com/basia because that will allow me to focus more on content creation.