In this episode, Robert continues to explore the lessons from select TV shows to look beyond the entertainment and use their stories to depict unconscious areas of our life worthy of examination with potential great benefit. All of the shows that Robert and Dave present can support us to break free from what we were taught growing up and encourage us to have individual contemplation with new insight. This individual contemplation is crucial. We cannot afford to be carbon copies of prior generations because we are facing a very imperiled world in the 21st century. Many of us learn much better through the arts than we do from words alone. Join us as Robert and Dave unpack the hit series, Dexter and use it as a tool for self-reflection and awakening. 

At first glance, Dexter appears to be just another violent show. However,  as we are let into his inner thoughts and introduced to his alter ego, he turns out to be a very relatable and sympathetic character. We too are not perfectly innocent, and like Dexter have a dark side and an angry side. Most of us spend large amounts of energy managing how we are viewed by others. Being able to witness layers of ourselves, like Dexter observes his killer instinct, is a huge act of self-awareness. Where are you two or more people where you haven't admitted it yet? Dexter gives us the chance to witness his dark passenger without a negative attitude about it. This cultivated compassion in practice could play out when seeing a homeless person on the street and instead of being annoyed or assume they are unmotivated, perhaps a new curiosity about their story can occur. Before this show, Robert, like many of you, couldn't imagine rooting for a serial killer. It disorients us in order to push our capacity to think for ourselves beyond our conditioned ideas of morality. The series Dexter turns morality on its head and allows the possibility of falling in love with the unlovable, to relook at people in the world with greater compassion, and maybe just maybe fall in a deeper like with the unlovable parts of ourselves.

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