The Human Maturity Podcast

We continue down the juicy list of dharma cookies today. Topics today include learning by immersion, free will, choices vs. decisions, toxic altruism, and more.

This episode drops nearly 2 weeks early to podcast members to reward their support. 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 famed and fabled Second Sunday each month where we get together in real-time and talk about whatever is up. We’ve got 14 members now! The next second Sunday is August 10, 2025.

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Thanks to everyone who made it, and especially to Rebecca for starting us off on the inquiry of what it means to serve love. See you next time!

This is the recording of our July Second Sunday zoom.

We take on a controversial subject today by request. Stace and I are aware of occasionally using real life situations as examples that may trigger embarrassment in people, even though we don’t mention them by name. So what’s the deal with that? Is that mature, ethical? How do we make that work metaphysically? Do we succeed, or is it a complex justification for being mean? You decide, of course?

This episode drops 6 days early to podcast members to reward their support. 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 famed and fabled Second Sunday each month where we get together in real-time and talk about whatever is up. We’ve got 14 members now! The next second Sunday is August 10, 2025.

Thanks for listening, or if you’re on youtube or substack, for watching.

We dig up an old model inside Edenity not previously discussed on a podcast, called soul nodes: north, south, east, and west orientations for our journeys through life, with slight variations for men and women. Topics today also include a reinterpretation of Genesis, how religion is divorced from reality, authority projections onto EBE, and what it means to be a maniac in the work. One note, I mention in the intro I had to do one more revision of the Yin-in-Service document, and you’ll be happy to know I did that weeks ago not long after we recorded this.

This episode drops early to podcast members to reward their support. 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 famed and fabled Second Sunday each month where we get together in real-time and talk about interesting things. The next second Sunday is July 13, 2025.

You’ve got until the end of day July 11 to become a member if you want to join us.

The subject of today is the nature of love: what codependency is, healthy anger, why the loss of control is necessary for relationality, taking the altruism out of “I love you,” the unholy bond of love and happiness, and of course much more.

This episode drops early to podcast members to reward their support. 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 famed and fabled Second Sunday each month where we get together in real-time and talk about whatever is up. The next second Sunday is July 13, 2025. In the last one, I previewed the new piece I’m working on that is about green vs. gold reasons to quit EBE, authority projections, and more stuff related to making EBE work the best for you.

This episode was recorded in mid-2025 during my time inside the Edenity paradigm. At the time, I was correctly perceiving a real pattern but mislocating its cause. What I was describing here as individual or relational distortion is now more accurately understood as a structural consequence of privileging emotion as primary. I’m re-releasing this as an archival record of that inquiry in a new context.

For more on the re-contexting of Yin-in-Service, please listen to HMP160.

This episode was recorded in mid-2025 during my time inside the Edenity paradigm. At the time, I was correctly perceiving a real pattern but mislocating its cause. What I was describing here as individual or relational distortion is now more accurately understood as a structural consequence of privileging emotion as primary. I’m re-releasing this as an archival record of that inquiry in a new context.

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

For more on the re-contexting of Yin-in-Service, please listen to HMP160.

This episode was recorded in mid-2025 during my time inside the Edenity paradigm. At the time, I was correctly perceiving a real pattern but mislocating its cause. What I was describing here as individual or relational distortion is now more accurately understood as a structural consequence of privileging emotion as primary. I’m re-releasing this as an archival record of that inquiry in a new context.

For more on the re-contexting of Yin-in-Service, please listen to HMP160.

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

This episode was recorded in mid-2025 during my time inside the Edenity paradigm. At the time, I was correctly perceiving a real pattern but mislocating its cause. What I was describing here as individual or relational distortion is now more accurately understood as a structural consequence of privileging emotion as primary. I’m re-releasing this as an archival record of that inquiry in a new context.

For more on the re-contexting of Yin-in-Service, please listen to HMP160.

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