Garrett and Mike talk about our need for mental clarity and how true clarity comes from awareness of what is.

The Gamification of Public Discourse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LpbGW3qLVg

Chapter 27: To live with clarity is not a value

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/chapter-27-live-clarity-not-value/Clarity

Garrett and Mike discuss their notion of freedom as they get over another crushing Buffalo Bills playoff loss.

Link to J. Krishnamurti reading:

Chapter 2 - Freedom is essential for the beauty of goodness | J. Krishnamurti

Garrett and Mike continue to try and discuss time, more specifically our experience of it. They turn to the Bible, Henri Bergson, and Dante for inspiration.

Garrett and Mike celebrate the season by discussing some of their takeaways from reading Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

Hermitix Podcast Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hermitix/id1437997652?i=1000739997500

Garrett and Mike talk about the elusive concept of Now. What it means for the self, what it is, and if it's really here at all.

Garrett and Mike take on the difficult task of attempting to talk about I am.

In this episode, Garrett and Mike discuss fear. They read some original poetry and ask the question, does the bud fear the flower?

Garrett and Mike once again return to a discussion that centers around The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They talk about feeling ridiculous, the medium of the dream, truth, love and all the rest.

Garrett and Mike discuss Marshall McLuhan and his concept of "The Medium is the Message." They explore how the mediums and technologies that make up our environment change our perceptions and modes of being even more than the actual content of those mediums and technologies.

Garrett and Mike discuss minimalism and some of their takeaways from the book Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki.

Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Things-New-Japanese-Minimalism/dp/0393609030