Some thoughts about our cultural concept of innocence, specifically the innocence of childhood, and an outline of the authoritarian parenting style, and how these are playing out in current events. Bonus reminder of how reality paradigms are formed for individuals and cultures, and how they can be updated. 

A sort of companion episode to "The Frogs, the Poets, and the Fools." Is thinking a broad or specific verb? Should it be used only for analytical and logical tasks, or can it also be a more organic and integrated process? Come settle the debate between competing meanings and maybe learn a few new ways to use your mind…whatever you want to call them!

Some thoughts about comprehension, the inadequacies of language, and the fundamental pointlessness of generative AI for translating individual human experience into a form someone else might possibly be able to understand. Bonus content about what it means to understand courtesy of an ongoing debate with my yogi friend.

Did you know that fiction is one of the best tools we have for deeply understanding another person's experience of consciousness? Pull up a chair, it's story time with Auntie E, and she's got a tale of science fiction, splintered focus, and how Murderbot's view of its own system helped solve a problem that six years of test-iterating couldn't....

The mental load of CARING about the emotional and existential experience of everyone in a household is often carried by women. This invisible burden contributes to heightened stress and poorer mental health for women, functioning analagously to a "pink tax" paid in order to have a family. Let's dream of a future where that isn't true - and talk about some strategies to bring us closer to that dream.

Our relationship to our own MBTI type - as well as other type preferences - is often a result of the family and culture we grew up in. Those experiences impact what we seek in adult relationships and how well we can relate to different personality types. Type alone is never enough to answer compatibility questions. It is ALWAYS type plus context!

So...what kind of relationship do you want? What roles do you want to play in your romantic partnership? And how might you show up differently in one relationship vs. another? Come explore the types of intimacy in more depth - it's the relationship parallel to our unfolding mandala of self. 

Part One. Because there is just too much that goes into the question of why you should date any particular person than their MBTI type, and also because there is more that goes into how you view someone's MBTI type than your own type. Today we dig into the two most common dating strategies, "opposites attract" and "like calls to like," and how each of them might look at Jungian cognitive types. 

A somewhat pedantic ramble about what is meant by "thoughts" and "thinking" and "emptying the mind" in the context of mindfulness practices. Bonus content: the actual point of mindfulness, why equating mindfulness with discipline supports the patriarchy, and a side quest into the nature of conscious awareness. TL;DL? Go stand by a field and listen to the frogs. 

We all know the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is 42. And we know the best approximation of this canonically unknowable question is "How many roads must a hu/man walk down?" What does that really mean in practice? What does it mean to be a human who has walked those 42 roads? What might those 42 roads be? And does it matter HOW we walk them or simply THAT we walk them?