Half Awakened

“Childish” is a touchy term. I don’t mean to be judgmental. I’m pointing toward the way we carry a child’s needs into our adult lives under certain traumatic conditions.

This one’s an edgy post. My thoughts are even more raw than usual, and I really spoke off the cuff about broad topics involving trauma, personality, and maturing into adulthood.

It might not land well. I might be over-generalizing. Or it might hit too close to an unsolvable social problem?

I’m gonna share it anyway. Because it’s important somehow…I know that. Even if I didn’t get it right on the first try.

If you love it or hate it, you know where the comment button is ❤️

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I touched my intuition in a totally new way today. Well, new for me. Who else works with intuition as a guiding signal in your life? Why aren’t you and I talking about it?!

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Do I post this? I recorded it as a personal note, not meant for an audience. But trying to re-record it would lose its soul. Screw it. Here’s a bit of the “me” that isn’t trying to be smart in public.

I traveled to Northern Arizona this week to do some hiking with my friend Joseph. On the day we drove to Sedona, I had a synchronistic experience—some things happened in the world around me that caught my attention for no particular reason, and they tied together into a personal revelation.

What’s really crazy is that my astrology said it was going to happen.

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(I got a new high-end microphone yay! But I didn't set the levels right and my voice is clipping in this ep, boo! Bear with me as I learn how to podcast.)

I've been stressing about how I'm going to write an impressive book of philosophy. While getting out of my head by working with the dirt in the back yard, I realized the truth of flow, inter-relatedness, and the Middle Path. Here's a summary of how I got there, moving through the language of Kant and Jung.

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In this mini-pod:

* Self-sufficiency vs. needing repair

* Apologizing as output of personal evolution

* Gauging relational development by the repair process

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In this mini-pod:

* The difference between trust and faith?

* How credentialing stands in for authenticity

* A simple way to define mindfulness

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In this mini-pod:

* Objects and Duality

* Conscious Awareness and Attention

* Desire and Aversion

* Trauma healing techiniques that play with metaphysics

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A podcast? WHAAAAAAAT??

Yeah. Starting this blog was a big step for me. Before that, I only published essays that took weeks to write and edit. Blogs are teaching me to just let my words flow.

This is another step in that direction.

What if I just, like, say it? Without editing anything. Just show up with my real self and open the gate.

Like I do on phone calls with close friends.

These mini-pods will be digestible bites: about 15 min each.

They’ll be unedited and raw. Just me, the spirit, and random background noise. That’s it.

Let me know what you think.

In this pod:

* What gaslighting is, how it works (hint: it’s trauma)

* How labeling gaslighting perpetuates victim culture

* A better way to look at gaslighting situations

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