Thought Leader

This episode is a direct and unfiltered window into a revision week of the Eyes Wide Open Life Alchemy Program.
The audio for this episode one of the recent fortnightly group call with the participants and it is a summary of everything we have covered and been practicing to date, wrapped up in one clean lesson which provides clarity, context and inspiration for how to engineer a life of meaning and fulfilment.

It is completely unedited, but he message is so relevant and poignant that a few of the members of the current working group taking part in the alchemy program encouraged me to release this on the podcast.
I reached the end of 2021 quite burnt out and I sat just before the new year to work out where I had gone wrong, and what I needed to do to never been in this position again.
I don't believe in resolutions or ambitions. I believe in Actualisation and Integration, Being and Becoming, and meeting the road along the way, I believe in leadership and coming from Love, and I believe in practicing stillness and mindfulness.

I distilled all of my philosophy, my understanding of human behaviour, biology, metabolism, and all my spiritual sensibilities and worked out how to follow that with Authenticity and how to teach other people to do that. The result was the Alchemy Program.

The Alchemy Program is a 6 part program that runs until mid-June. It is based on a combination of Agile principles and the philosophy I apply in my own life to pursue a life of purpose and meaning.

The context to help orientate to what you are about to hear is that the Alchemy program logo is a honeycomb hexagon, a six sided cell, with each side representing one of the six focuses:

• Make Space,
• Invest Well,
• Honour the Cycles,
• Transmute Energy and Story,
• Receive More to Give More and
• Live my Purpose.

The results are phenomenal. The chaos and drama and over spend of energy has been replaced by steady cadence, a time for everything, clear focus on short and near term objectives and a total paradigm shift. The Alchemy Program prescribes the What we need to do, the Way we need to do it, the How and Why it works and the guidance on When to invest energy, when to go with the flow and when to withdraw.

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In this solo episode we cover two insights around the Depp Heard Trial that firstly would not have occurred to most people, but also which I believe have implications to us as society, especially given the mounting mental health crisis and the rapidly deteriorating forum of public discourse and specifically the farce of Social Justice movements and the sentiment supporting it. We discuss from a psychological and philosophical perspective how this is the natural end to a destructive cycle and what that could mean for our future.
We also discuss:

• how the Pandemic evaporated off the news cycle,
• the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the power of Propaganda
• the Will Smith Slap at the Oscars
• Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter and remediate public discourse online
• the psychological power game of the Victim and Social Justice paradigms
• the psychological effect of Redeemers and Scapegoats
• The normalisation of dysfunction.

I also share details of the exciting upcoming event with Sarah Elkhaldy on the 18/19 May.
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This Episode covers our human fascination and obsesession with Messiahs and Gurus, we talk about how the phonomenon comes about and Rocco gives a cutting critique on two of our popular celebrity figures Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson.
The episode discusses at lenth the Messiah trope and the origin of the most famous one in the west namely Jesus Christ and some surprising facts about the origins of the trope, and the high likelihood that the story of Jesus, and the gospel and the canon of Christianity, that it The New Testament, is all the product of opportunistic propaganda designed and executed by the Romans to subdue the Jews and establish order across the Roman Empire.

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Looking with genuine care at the source and nature of conflict in Palestine.
"It is entirely possible for two sides in a conflict to both be guilty of separate and irreconcilable transgressions that do not justify either nor balance each other out."

This episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and resist the urge to form quick opinions. With the understanding that conflict cannot be resolved through one side being right, we aim for a transcendent perspective through which everything can be held and reconciled. Our focus is not just on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, but on conflicts that manifest in various forms—be it emotional, political, or otherwise.
Most of all, it is part of a mandate we each need to consider and own to be open to this necessary form of generosity and courage, in a word Leadership, whereby can live up to the claim that we care more about a path to peace, than we do about retribution and vindication.

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In this episode I discuss Actualization, unpacking what I mean by this, and the Power of Permission, which we need to give ourselves, to pursue our intents, to take mastery of our life and our choices, to enter courageously into a conversation with the Universe and with the reality of our lives, where it becomes okay to 'fail', so that we can learn, grow and develop.
Indirectly I also discuss in some detail what the entire project of the Eyes Wide Open Life podcast is about, what my motivations and intentions are, and what my main thesis in all of my work is, which is found throughout the @rocco.jarman humanitarian art project on Instagram and the Courses and Coaching I deliver via Eyes Wide Open Life.
I also cover:

• feedback loops
• self-measurement and reflection
• radical honesty and vulnerability
• peerlessness
• the false attraction and pursuit of wisdom vs the more authentic project of actualization and discovery of self

If you take nothing else away from this episode, this is the part i hope truly lands:

I believe, and in many ways, Iam living proof, that the pursuit and attainment and the successful negotiation of all the obstacles that stand in the way of self-mastery and self-liberation, is at bottom, psychological.
That is, our pursuit or failure to achieve connection, is as a result of the ideas we carry, ideas we have been infected with through conditioning, the ideas we have failed to challenge and correct in ourselves.
Ideas about love, acceptance, forgiveness, worthiness, power, belonging, divinity, and consciousness, are the ideas we need to get straight, and redundant impediments like shame, guilt and the confusion between Fear and Danger, between Pain and Injury, between Discomfort an unbearability, that discernment, is KEY.

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