The Way Forward

05/26/22 • 93 min

This episode is an edit clip from The Walled Garden Podcast where I was a guest recently. The interviewer is a collaborator and friend of mine, Australian Poet and Philosopher Simon Drew.
As you'll hear from this interview Simon is a thoughtful host who is incredible at holding space for rich and meaningful conversation.

We discuss:

The project of bringing Mysticism and Science together intelligently and elegantly, without doing a disservice to either.
The nature of skewed incentives and how that has affected public trust of institutions and degraded public discourse.
The daring leadership of asking difficult questions, sitting with paradoxes and how important these are in the service of progress and evolution of consciousness.
Actualisation, and what that can mean for both individuals and our species as we stand on the brink of an impossible moment.
The kind of trouble the human race is facing, the tendency towards fatalism or apathy, and what we can do about this in the context of self-ownership and what it means to come from Love not from Fear.

Simon is the founder of The Walled Garden - a global community of philosophers, artists, and seekers who are dedicated to the pursuit of Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, and the Divine wherever they may be found.

Simon is also the host of The Walled Garden Podcast, the flagship of a growing network of podcasts centring on topics ranging right through the spectrum of the humanities, including philosophy, theology, mysticism, mythology, poetry, history and spirituality, a community I am planning to become an active part of.
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We discuss:

The project of bringing Mysticism and Science together intelligently and elegantly, without doing a disservice to either.
The nature of skewed incentives and how that has affected public trust of institutions and degraded public discourse.
The daring leadership of asking difficult questions, sitting with paradoxes and how important these are in the service of progress and evolution of consciousness.
Actualisation, and what that can mean for both individuals and our species as we stand on the brink of an impossible moment.
The kind of trouble the human race is facing, the tendency towards fatalism or apathy, and what we can do about this in the context of self-ownership and what it means to come from Love not from Fear.

Checkout my YouTube channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhHg8lI-GbAFL9cPtLxMFg

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Previous Episode

How to Engineer a Life of Meaning

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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Next Episode

Attention Deficit Culture

This week I am joined in conversation with Avigail Gimpel.

Avigail is a mother of 6, college lecturer and author of Hyper Healing - a book dedicated to educating teachers, coaches and primarily parents of children with symptoms that would fall under the blanket diagnosis of ADHD.

My guest is a voracious relentless researcher, who has a gifted husband and 6 gifted children all on the spectrum and is committed to leaving no stone unturned in her quest for deeper understandings and solutions - Something you will hear come out very clearly as we meander enjoyably through our conversation.
We Discuss:

Instant gratification type personalities
Living with ADHD Kids or Partners
The flaws of the Education System
The Importance of Diet
The false diagnosis of ADHD as a condition
The wide array of ADHD symptoms with varying underling causes

Our personal journeys of Actualisation require self-acceptance and integration through Inner Child Healing. So many of us are struggling in our life paths, in relationships, in careers that simply do no stimulate us, or feel alien in a culture that seems filled with other people who seem more well-adjusted to all those things than we are. Ultimately all of us except the absolutely vanilla core of the mainstream, are on the spectrum, one way or another. The entire human species is undergoing individuation as we transition into the next phase of evolution. A big part of understanding ourselves and taking ownership of our own inner child and accepting our nature is captured in the core of this conversation.

As a culture we have spent the last 30 years trying to work out how to fix children that were not adapted to the traditional academic K12 education model. The kids were never broken. An education system that expected children to sit still for hours at a time and learn by wrote was always woefully, outdated, inept and was in fact the problem that should never have existed in the first place.

Education after all is the lighting of a fire, not the filling of a cup.

The book Hyper Healing is subtitled The Empowered Parents Complete Guide to Raising a Healthy Child with ADHD Symptoms.
Hyperhealing.org
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Website: eyeswideopenlife.org

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