The Human Maturity Podcast

This episode marks a threshold. The podcast has a new name, a new direction, and a renewed commitment to wholeness.

I speak directly about a foundational categorical error in the paradigm of Edenity and speak to a few of its many ramifications, which extend far beyond the framework itself.

This episode accompanies the public release of a written manuscript that lays out the full argument in detail. This episode is the introduction to the Yin-as-Essence Fallacy, and there will be more episodes on this subject forthcoming. I encourage anyone engaged in Edenity work to read this document carefully.

Happy New Year! Just a quick break in the holiday break from regular podcasts. I’ll likely be resuming with regular episodes by late January/Early February 2026. In this episode, how critical thinking is a part of spirituality and so deserves development, and a sample of a long list of excuses. My new course, Critical Thinking for Excellence, begins January 8, for more information go to https://courses.clearandopen.com/critical-thinking-excellence

Stace and I revisit the 1999 film, The Matrix today, its impact on the evolution of Edenity, how it addresses all three hoods in a way I’d never seen before, and some of the most powerful psychospiritually significant parts of the film.

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More dharma cookies today. Topics include the unselfconsciousness of ensoulment, the loss of existential control, how transcendence cuts off the bottom three chakras, the responsibility of leadership, how the perception of love changes based on maturity, and much more.

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Stace and I unpack more dharma cookies today. Topics include the difference between improvement and transmutation, why Preduality can make emotion seem distant, how beavers make great metaphors and not only dams, the remarkable etymology of the word “deserve,” the approximation of real self-worth with energetic confidence, and a lot more.

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This podcast is best enjoyed from the very beginning with episode 1. Thanks for listening.

Eric joins me today and our main focus is on the subject of paradigmatic rigor and the tricky balance of holding objective standards while meeting people where they are subjectively. I didn’t say this in the podcast, but there’s a contextual headline I’ll offer here: there’s a common content and context confusion problem in so many domains in our world. We’re often looking for new answers instead of properly using what we have in front of us and just willing to be uncomfortable.

With few exceptions, every great teaching in the history of consciousness has been diluted and distorted for mass consciousness so deeply that it ends up doing literally the opposite of the original intention. This is how experience-based spirituality turns into religion, how democracies devolve into autocracies, how school ruins people’s appetite and discipline for learning, and on and on. This dynamic is the fabric of the strategic world. If you don’t every day see the cake-and-eat-it-too dynamic ruining things that would otherwise work, then in my humble opinion your eyes are not yet open and you’re still in green subjectivism. I don’t enjoy holding this flag, but it’s something I just cannot put down right now.

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This podcast is best enjoyed from the very beginning with episode 1. Thanks for listening.

Stace and I decode a handful more of dharma cookies today. The actor we were trying to recall in the beginning was Jeff Daniels, by the way. Topics include transcendence, responsibility for the unconscious, triggers, and what I titled the episode somewhat arbitrarily, the fraudulence of selflessness.

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This podcast is best enjoyed from the very beginning with episode 1. Thanks for listening.

Ashley joins us again today to cover some more specific highlights of yin-in-service. Themes also include accountability, guilt, rent-a-friends, and the yin and yang sides of apologies.

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Today, how all soul species are here to sort out the love vs. will question, the real source of the fantasy of good vs. evil, how religion has been the tool of Gephians, Edenity’s take on transgender, and much more, it was a dense episode. Two quick notes: the concept that the war between the Cahrpacians and Gephians is yin-in-service vs. yang-in-service respectively came to Stace after we recorded, so I made that the title but you won’t hear us use those terms directly. Also, I suggested with my porous memory that it was maybe House Republicans who were caught having a Nazi-soaked text thread, but this was the political organization of the Young Republicans, an important distinction.

Podcast members get this one early. To become a member for just 5 bucks a month, you can go to content.clearandopen.com. In addition to early releases, you get access to chat and commenting features, and exclusive access to the live Second Sunday discussions each month where we get together in real-time and have rich and real conversations. The next second Sunday is November 9, 2025.

You can find the Yin-in-Service Treatise here.

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Stace is forward on the podcast today and we context the mess of the world today in terms of the post-truth era that began in the Renaissance, providing what I think is some much needed meta. Subjects include the rise of subjectivism, the degradation of morality parallel to the loss of objective truth, and of course a lot more. Podcast members get this one a week early.

To become a member for just 5 bucks a month, you can go to content.clearandopen.com. In addition to early releases, you get access to chat and commenting features, and exclusive access to the live Second Sunday discussions each month where we get together in real-time and have rich and real conversations. The next second Sunday is October 12, 2025.