The Human Maturity Podcast

You’re responsible for the contents of your unconscious. That’s the bad news, Edenity offers, but your reward is nothing less than the retrieval of your very soul in so doing. Rabbit holes include why some people are attracted to immortality, more comedy offered by the leaders of our world, how many shakes of the penis constitutes masturbation according to the Catholic Church, and a poem by yours truly about trigger warnings.

Also, the new website Edenity.org is live. If you are curious about what you read on the new website and hear in this podcast, Brie & Stace are available live on zoom every two months. They will answer your questions, help with confusions, hold space for your feelings and provide reflections. The first one will take place on Thursday December 7, 2023. You can register for those curiosity circles on the event page of edenity.org

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Your life is not essentially yours, but you get to live it. That’s the Sainthood realization we discuss today. We talk about the qualitative difference between Sagehood and Sainthood awakenings, why doing the “hoods” in the prescribed order is important, the nausea of esoteric spirituality, how your soul-gifts are inevitably bound up in your emotional wounds, and as always, much more.

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You’re not here to be happy, that’s why it seems so elusive. The sooner you give up on its pursuit, paradoxically the more fulfilled you’ll be. This is the realization we explore today. We begin by exploring free will with an incisive explanation as to why so many neuroscientists argue that it doesn’t exist these days. If you haven’t watched us on Youtube yet, this is a great opportunity to see the piece of lettuce stuck in my teeth the entire time. And on the subject of foibles, I am aware that my audio/video sync drifts toward the end of the episode. I had to use a backup mic while some equipment was in the shop. So you’re not losing your grip on reality if you experience that. Or you are, and it’s also out of sync. Both can be true.

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What if you had no idea how to relate with other people? What if the “you” who learned to relate with others did so from a necessary, but inauthentic seat of being destined to cause confusion, difficulty, and suffering in your relationships? What if there were a way to embody the soulful you that automatically related with people with ease? These are the questions we explore in today’s episode. 

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Before exploring the essential nature of intimacy and what it's for, we examine the paradigmatic distortions at the root of the Palestine-Israel conflict, which is a geopolitical relationality catastrophe that predictably cannot resolve until the root issues are addressed. On the subject of personal relationality, we discuss the critical surrender to intimacy as a vehicle for healing childhood wounds, how polyamory is an understandable but immature flight from that truth, and how the pursuit of fulfillment in intimacy reveals what’s in its way.

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What if everything were real, and some things were just realer than others? How would that orientation change how you moved through life? That’s the realization du jour in this series. We look at the opposite point of view, absolutism, in eastern dharma and western religion and arrive at how there is no black and white, only shades of gray. Woven through this episode is also the theme of relationality and how absolutism collapses relational space, which we’ll likely continue in the next episode.

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What if there were no such thing as a negative emotion? What would happen if you related to yourself and others in this way, every moment of every day? This is the realization we explore today, including the difference between homeopathic and allopathic relationships to emotion, the dangers of transcendence, how every negative feeling emotion is actually a cry for help, and, a word from a new sponsor for your Edentertainment.

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How could it be that God answers all your prayers? Well, the key distinction is the difference between the perceived self and the soul. We address the ancient question of “Why does God allow evil in the world?”, the “and” between creationism and evolution, how Divinity cannot not be involved in your life, and much more.

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We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today is a two for one on realizations: “That you’ve projected on people so much you’ve never really known them” and “That you’ve played victim for most of your life.”

To address the first, we need to blend Personhood and Sagehood, and demonstrate that in one way you can never truly know anyone, including yourself. We cover the four general compensational strategies that our unconscious protection draws upon and for the second realization, the connection between absolutism and victimhood that’s quite subtle to appreciate. This is especially true when it comes to existential victimhood and how EBE as a psychospiritual paradigm addresses projection and victimhood in both content and context, which most paradigms don’t combine.

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We continue our series on realizations that come as a result of ensoulment practice. Today’s realization: “That things are not our concepts of them.” This is one of our first Sagehood episodes in a while. We address the difference between pure Zen and Edenity’s take on enlightenment, as well as other variations out there, the difference between transcendence and healing algorithms, the metaphysical limitations of nonduality and its subtle dead-end, and of course, much more.