Actualization and the Power of Permission

02/26/21 • 43 min

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 RocketSprocket 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 honestly 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 i am 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, consciousness, these 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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feedback loops
self-measurement and reflection
radical honestly 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:

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Previous Episode

Reflections #01: Of Museums and Memes

A reflection on the nature and merits of reflection and quiet contemplation itself.
The piece I cover is called of Museums & Memes from my collection The Ratchet & The Pendulum.
Reflections episodes, are an invitation to stop for a moment, to allow ourselves to become still, and to hear, with an open heart, a message or an idea, that can open small windows in our minds, or hold mirrors to the windows we were looking for the courage and stillness, to open within ourselves.

what do you wish to say
to the World
which might set wings
to the fallen angels
of our abandoned
but once noble ideas.
This is the first of many in a series called Reflections, in which we will cover pieces of my own work or pieces I have come across that I find deeply inspiring and have enriched my thinking and my life in some profound way.

These are intended to fill the cultural space that homilies and philosophical and or spiritual contemplations used to.
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Reflections #02: Defeat

A reflection on Defeat and the value of not just seeking the Invincible Summer within that Albert Camus wrote of, but equally the profound understanding of the winters we need to face within ourselves and the stillness we need to come to ground in, in our own journeys of healing and growth. Our grief, we learn, is the greatest teacher, on Love.
The piece I cover is called Defeat by Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American Poet, who was responsible for the great work The Prophet.
Reflections episodes, are an invitation to stop for a moment, to allow ourselves to become still, and to hear, with an open heart, a message or an idea, that can open small windows in our minds, or hold mirrors to the windows we were looking for the courage and stillness, to open within ourselves.

what do you wish to say
to the World
which might set wings
to the fallen angels
of our abandoned
but once noble ideas.
This is the second of many in a series called Reflections, in which we will cover pieces of my own work or pieces I have come across that I find deeply inspiring and have enriched my thinking and my life in some profound way.

These are intended to fill the cultural space that homilies and philosophical and or spiritual contemplations used to.
Eyes Wide Open Life Podcast
email: [email protected]

Support the show