Meaningness Podcast
door David Chapman
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Creating conduits between the visionary realm and the actual world
Creating conduits between the visionary realm and the actual world
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🚞 Trains of thought 💭 captured as sound🎙️; monologues on diverse ⁉️ topics, and conversations 👥 too!
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- Creating conduits between the visionary realm and the actual world · 22 minTranscript Introduction [00:00] Most of this podcast is a recording from a retreat Charlie Awbery and I led a month ago. I’m adding a short introduction here now, to provide…
- Meaning: lost, or muddled by metaphysics? · 1 u 2 minJohn Vervaeke’s Meaning Crisis and my Meaningness address similar issues in similar frameworks. Yet there seem significant differences! Andrew Conner pinpointed some in his…
- You can just bless things · 7 minTranscript You can bless things. It’s easy! You can do this! You just go around blessing things. You don’t need a clerical collar, you don’t need a fancy hat (although the hat…
- You can’t sell enlightenment · 13 minTranscript (ish) Dzogchen is the branch of Buddhism that I’m most influenced by; that I love most. It’s extraordinarily compelling and exciting and beautiful. It’s in some sense…
- The unaltered state · 15 minMany people in the West pursue meditation in order to experience altered states. Meditation is sometimes considered a safer alternative to taking psychoactive drugs, with roughly…
- Personal experiences of sacredness & community · 54 minA facilitated discussion of how the participants find sacredness in the actual world—and in community. This Vajrayana Q&A session is an Evolving Ground online discussion I…
- Dzogchen Street Preacher #0: Kadag · 1 min“Dzogchen Street Preacher” is the overall title for a series of performance pieces I planned in 2009. This extremely brief one, “Kadag,” was meant to introduce the whole thing. I…
- Maps of Meaningness · 1 u 51 minBefore controversy and fame, Jordan Peterson was a psychologist theorizing myth and meaning. Jake Orthwein points out striking similarities in Peterson’s work and David’s. Along…
- What's the connection between gender and meta-rationality? · 9 minRationality is stereotypically masculine. What about meta-rationality? Transcript: Charlie: What’s the connection between gender and meta-rationality? David: I had never thought…
- Priests and Kings · 13 minThe common civilizational pattern of a separate priesthood and aristocracy casts light on current political dysfunction. This video follows “Nobility and virtue are distinct…
- Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness · 8 minNobility is the wise and just use of power. Nobility is not moral virtue. They are not in conflict; they may correlate, but they don't always coincide. Nobility is the proper…
- What is stage five (like)? · 36 minA visual, kinesthetic, embodied experience 𐡸 A fish-eye lens and a magnifying glass 𐡸 The little clicker wheel 𐡸 Nurturing a plot of woodland 𐡸 Becoming the space, unstuck in…
- Stage five is nothing special · 9 minA nine-minute radio sermonette. I think I may be doing a bunch of these. Subscribe to get all of them! Possibly I’ll create one every day or two! And maybe you don’t want that…
- Fivefold confidence · 9 minEmptiness, form, and the Big Bang 𐡸 How understanding creates students 𐡸 Buddhism outside institutions This short video explains two stanzas from the Evolving Ground invocation…
- This is it! · 7 minA seven-minute radio sermonette. Transcript This is it! We’re actually here. I’m here in this room you can see behind me maybe, if you’re watching, not listening. You can hear my…
- Rigpa and ethical nihilism · 7 minRigpa is Dzogchen’s word roughly equivalent to “enlightenment.” But what is rigpa, actually? And what does it imply for ethics? A conversation with Varun Godbole. This is a clip…
- The incomparable value of being wrong · 58 minWhat is learning math good for? — Robert Kegan and “meaning-making” — Existentialism’s error — Narcissism and tyranny — How can we avoid radical relativism? — My experience of…
- When the proof comes as white light and angels · 21 minThe felt experience of mathematics — witchcraft and black magic — “Shut up, kid!” — what is a real number? — shocked and embarrassed — clouds all the way down — a choir of angels…
- Myth, adult developmental stages, and entrepreneurship · 45 minHow thoughts work — goddesses at the origin of philosophy — inspiration in adult development — how myths transform society and culture — Spock and Jimi Hendrix —…
- Vajrayana, Ultraspeaking, and adult stage transitions · 21 minFollowing our earlier conversation about Ultraspeaking and Vajrayana, we add adult developmental stage theory to the mix: three transformational frameworks in synergy. We…
