Carry The Fire Podcast

Today on the podcast I am joined by the incredibly talented hip-hop artist, poet, and activist Propaganda, AKA Jason Petty.

We discuss some weightier issues like intersectionality and systemic racial injustice, as well as talking about skateboarding and the difference between emceeing and performing poetry.  Jason also has his own podcast with his wife, the Red Couch Podcast which I recommend checking out.

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Crooked - Propaganda

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On this week’s episode of Carry the Fire, Author and Professor, Dr. James P. Carse joins us. Dr. Carse does not consider himself a religious person per se. But, he is the author of numerous books on religious topics and he taught religious history and literature for 30 years at NYU. His widely read book, Finite and Infinite Games, came out in 1987 and is having a recent resurgence in influence. In our conversation, we talk about mysticism in various traditions, Dr. Carse's framing of what he calls systems of inquiry vs systems of belief, and he shares the way his observations of cooperative play have influenced his general philosophy of life. This episode may be on the heady end of the scale, but there is a lot in this episode that everyone can grab onto.

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Today on the podcast we are joined by Gerard Way. Gerard is the singer of the band My Chemical Romance and also has released some great music on his own. He has spent the last few years writing comics, including the very popular Umbrella Academy comics which have also recently been adapted into a great show on Netflix. In our conversation, we talk about creating worlds and inhabiting characters, the beauty and the difficulty of creative collaboration, the complexity of trying to incorporate time-travel into a story, and we also get into Gerard’s spirituality, and I want to give a brief heads up for some of you regarding that.

Gerard is going to talk a bit about magick and witchcraft. While I’m no expert on either, I do know enough to know that these words in this context probably don’t mean what most of you probably think they do. Some of you might not bat an eye hearing them but a lot of you probably came up inside of a worldview where someone who was interested in these things was considered very evil, and Gerard is very far from that. If I can try to briefly provide a new framework for you it would be this. Generally, modern practices of magic and witchcraft, while being diverse in form, incorporate various insights and ritual elements from animistic pagan and folk religion, as well as incorporating some psychological intuitions from different fields and traditions. Practitioners often tend to be very concerned with the earth and our connection with it. While this is not my spiritual tradition or practice, I recognize that we all have things to learn from each other. I especially think the ideas in these traditions about finding our place within the natural world is a helpful corrective to the western traditions’ tendency to want to dominate over nature rather than see ourselves as a part of an interconnected web of being. I had no idea we’d be talking about any of this going into the conversation, but in the spirit of this podcast, I’m so glad I got to hear from another unique perspective on the good, the true, and the beautiful.

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On today's episode, we are joined by Hillary McBride. Hillary is a therapist, researcher, speaker, and author. She’s co-host on The Liturgists podcast. She also holds an M.A. in Psychology and recently earned her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in Counseling Psychology. In our conversation, we get into a wide variety of topics including embodiment and mental health. We discuss why we are so often disconnected from our bodies and what we can do about it. We explore connections between evolutionary biology and its connection to morality and consciousness. And Hillary shares some practical advice on what to look for when you’re trying to find a therapist.

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AEDP Institute Therapist Query

Rick Hanson Ph.D. - Take in the Good

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Welcome to Carry the Fire Podcast.

Qasim Rashid is a political candidate running for office as a Democrat for the Virginia Senate. Qasim is an author, attorney, and human rights activist. He is a Muslim of a branch of Islam you might not have heard of before. He also has a podcast with a friend where one of their goals is to remind us all that Muslims, Christians, and Jews used to get along better than we seem to lately. Qasim is a big believer in the power of dialogue between different kinds of people as a means of bringing a better and more loving world into being which, makes him a perfect fit for this show.

Disclaimer

I want to say that everyone is welcome here, regardless of your political associations. Guests on the show are going to have opinions and beliefs about better ways to do life together, and sometimes those ways involve political opinions, but the show is not, and I am not, tied unthinkingly to any particular party. As much as I might lean more "blue" on several issues, it doesn’t mean that I want to close down discussion with something who might lean red for their reasons. Much of what is missing in the political discourse in our country at the moment is serious and civil engagement about the issues that matter to us all.

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Re-Sight Islam Podcast

Talk to Me Book

Qasim Rashid Tedx Talk

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We’re excited to offer you a free preview of this exclusive Song Lyric Breakdown episode, only available on Patreon. This week, Carry the Fire Podcast producer Andy Lara joins me to discuss the song Beyond the Pines. We reflect on personal stories from Patrons, uncover the spark that inspired the lyrics, and among other things we also discuss the afterlife. - This is a special offering and all future song lyric breakdown episodes will be accessible only by joining Patreon. CLICK TO LEARN MORE.

A Great Wagon - Rumi

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We are offering a special opportunity to support the show early through Patreon. If you are new to Patreon, it is an effective way to support the creators that you already love, or discover brand new ones. When you sign up to become a patron of the show, you are partnering with me in this work, helping me to cover costs and to invest the necessary time to make the podcast both great and sustainable. Not only that, but as a patron you'll also gain access to a variety of patron-only episodes, exclusive content and perks, as well as a patron-only online community where you can interact regularly with myself and other patrons and have the opportunity to give input that will help shape future episodes. By joining Patreon before the end of the year, you will be inducted in the Flint & Steel Founders Club, where you will receive special perks beyond the tier incentives. To start, you will receive a limited edition Flint & Steel enamel pin, that will ship out at the close of the year. Thank you in advance for your support, you can begin your support here > SIGN UP ON PATREON

Welcome to Carry the Fire. Our Guest Brian McDonald is an expert in the art of telling stories. He has taught screenwriting and worked as a consultant for such clients such as Disney and Cirque du Soleil and currently serves as “Chief Storyteller” at the Belief Agency where he also produces the podcast “You Are a Storyteller.”  His book Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories That Resonate is required reading at Pixar Animation Studio. In this episode we discuss the necessity of wonder for artists, and the artist’s role in re awakening that wonder in others. We also explore what it means to tell the truth when writing a story, and even speculate a bit about what’s happened to George Lucas.

Write Invisible Ink

You are a Story Teller Podcast

Old Souls Book

Invisible Ink Book

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Welcome to Carry the Fire. Our guest Sameer Gadhia is the singer of the band, Young the Giant. Sameer and I both hail from Irvine, CA, but strangely enough had never met before we sat down for this conversation. We go deep pretty quickly and dive into the dynamic Hindu philosophical concept of Maya and one of its meanings which is often understood to be the illusion of truth. We discuss the confluence of Sameer’s love for both science and literature, and Sameer shares 3 little words that he believes would make the world a much better place if we could all say them a bit more often.

Young the Giant

A Take for the Time Being Book

Invisible Cities

Twain

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We are offering a special opportunity to support the show early through Patreon. If you are new to Patreon, it is an effective way to support the creators that you already love, or discover brand new ones. When you sign up to become a patron of the show, you are partnering with me in this work, helping me to cover costs and to invest the necessary time to make the podcast both great and sustainable. Not only that, but as a patron you'll also gain access to a variety of patron-only episodes, exclusive content and perks, as well as a patron-only online community where you can interact regularly with myself and other patrons and have the opportunity to give input that will help shape future episodes. By joining Patreon before the end of the year, you will be inducted in the Flint & Steel Founders Club, where you will receive special perks beyond the tier incentives. To start, you will receive a limited edition Flint & Steel enamel pin, that will ship out at the close of the year. Thank you in advance for your support, you can begin your support here > SIGN UP ON PATREON

Welcome to Carry the Fire Podcast. Hosted by Dustin Kensrue.

This preview episode is offered as an introduction to share about what's to come from Carry the Fire Podcast. Our friend, Dan Koch (Depolarize! and You Have Permission Podcast), joins us to interview our host Dustin Kensrue as a means to explore where this show will go, discuss what it means to pursue the Good, True, and Beautiful, and what we can expect from our guest list. Next week, a full episode interview with Dustin will air on Dan's podcast, You Have Permission, that dives deep into the questions discussed on this episode and much much more. Make sure to tune in to his show next week for that interview.

More specifically, the show aims to explore those big questions through the lens of the good, the true, and the beautiful. While these days it may feel like our disagreements and divisions threaten any hope of building a broad and beloved community, could it be possible that we all share some innate common belief in the value of these three transcendentals? By exploring our differences through this common ground, I believe our individual worldviews can be enriched by our interactions, becoming more good, true, and beautiful every day. To this end, we will engage in conversations with people like you, from a wide variety of backgrounds, beliefs, and professions. Whether the conversation is with a musician or author, a scientist or philosopher, we will together glimpse the world anew through their unique perspectives.

Thank you for listening,

- Dustin Kensrue

SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON

We are offering a special opportunity to support the show early through Patreon. If you are new to Patreon, it is an effective way to support the creators that you already love, or discover brand new ones. When you sign up to become a patron of the show, you are partnering with me in this work, helping me to cover costs and to invest the necessary time to make the podcast both great and sustainable. Not only that, but as a patron you'll also gain access to a variety of patron-only episodes, exclusive content and perks, as well as a patron-only online community where you can interact regularly with myself and other patrons and have the opportunity to give input that will help shape future episodes. By joining Patreon before the end of the year, you will be inducted in the Flint & Steel Founders Club, where you will receive special perks beyond the tier incentives. To start, you will receive a limited edition Flint & Steel enamel pin, that will ship out at the close of the year. Thank you in advance for your support, you can begin your support here > SIGN UP ON PATREON

Carry the Fire will official launch October 7th, 2019.

Please be sure to check out Dan Koch's Podcasts below, we enjoy them very much and believe you would too.

Depolarize! Podcast

You Have Permission Podcast

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