Thought Leader

The Fundamentals of Stable Mutual Actualization.

In conversation with Nic Gregoriades, host of The Liberation Mentor Podcast.

Nic is and an entrepreneur, martial artist and transformational coach from Cape Town, South Africa, now living in Los Angeles, California.

Nic is the founder the international martial arts community, The Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood and  co-creator the famous online show, London Real, which has seen him appear on the Joe Rogan Experience, the Aubrey Marcus' podcast and has interviewing Graham Hancock among other notable guests.

Over this hour, Nic and I discuss the fundamentals of my breakthrough paradigm of the Adult, the Child & the Animal, a powerful framework for understanding our own conscious and subconscious behavior and the keys to developing an effective roadmap for psychological self repair and stable actualization, which is effectively transforming the lives of people who are courageous enough to look where no one else is looking, and the potential it has to transform society.

We also discuss a new paradigm of altruism and perform some overdue myth-busting on misconceptions about ego, religion, nature, consciousness and connection.

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In conversation with meditation practitioner and mindfulness meditation coach, Luis Kreimerman.  
Luis has affected the lives of over 10,000 people with his patient encouraging style and the selfless contribution of hundreds of hours of his time sharing with a growing community the value and utility of an examined life and how one might practice this via meditation.
We discuss ideas and thoughts on Meditation and the utility of Mindfulness, specifically:

• how to think about ego,
• challenges with timid moral philosophy,
• how to think about the ambient noise of digital distraction and the glut of self help books and fake self-help gurus,
• how and why conversations devolve into debate and debate into argument,
• the change stimulus that discomfort provides.

Moreover Luis keeps pressing the question for us to discuss: What can we actually do?

You can follow Luis' work on Social Media: Instagram.com/kreimoksha

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In this Episode I talk with Jeff Shub, founder of The Urban Barefoot.

Jeff  is a holistic sustainability advisor, a student of his own method, a travelling speaker, a retreat facilitator, consultant and coach.

We discuss the importance of Self Ownership, our individual convictions of how to begin and proceed on such a path, and we wrestle in a collegiate fashion with language and each others ideas including the meaning of Fear, Connection, Archetypes, Supervenience and Calling.

I reached out to Jeff in late December, we came across each others work on Instagram and there was enough of a synergy between our messages and apparent philosophies to have this conversation, which Jeff was kind enough, (mid retreat in Costa Rica), to make time in his schedule to speak with me for over an hour.

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2020 was only the dress rehearsal for 2021.

We are going to be pushed to deal with more crazy than ever before, and this world is not simple, it and the issues we face, are complex.  My work is dense, my courses are dense, and we cannot really get at the relevant meaning if we try and dumb this down.  

We have an unhelpful addiction to simplicity, and a shared evolved laziness in pursuing nuance or the more elegant Simplicity which exists on the Far side of complexity.  This episode unpacks:

• our human evolutionary biology, 
• why we think quick vs slow, 
• our cognitive biases and lack of critical thinking,

and what these are costing us, why we should care, and most importantly what we can do about it.

"The fact that we are 
most reliably inclined
to reject or accept an idea 
based on our subjective,
or shared opinion 
of the person 
through whom they arrive 
should be all the evidence we need 
to admit to ourselves 
that we cannot 
think critically."

visit https://eyeswideopenlife.org or peruse my public thinking / art project at instagram.com/rocketsprocket

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In this first Ask Me Anything episode we cover Rocco's philosophy and insights on:

• Choice, Surrender and Reluctance
• Dealing with unrelenting emotional pain
• The pillars of a conscious diet
• The merits and challenges of Stoicism

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We each have a shared need to find inner peace, to know we could make some lasting progress in our lives, to develop a better and healthier relationship with ourselves, so that we can live a life less derailed by our obsession with our past traumas, avoiding pain, facing anxiety.
When we look within, and are able to drop the judgement, the self-criticisms, the pressure to be, to do, to change - we learn, reluctantly, that our own pattern of constantly trying to challenge our natures and force ourselves to accept the conditioning and expectations the world has of us, is precisely what is making us unsettled, unhappy and frustrated.
This Episode is a shallow dive into my popular Accepting Your Nature course.
Further details, episode notes and useful links can be found on https://www.eyeswideopenlife.org

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"War does not ensue due to conflict.
War is what happens when good people, forget the value of Peace."

The problem is not simply our media, or our leaders, or racism, or sexism, or corruption, or intolerance, nor one of pure greed or scarcity.  It is, old and limited ways of thinking, both inherited through evolution and reinforced by social media, failing to meet with the demands of a civilisation which has the curse of advanced technology, impoverished values, misguided beliefs and a lack of critical thinking and self awareness.

This episode covers The Eight invitations, to the Listener;

These are Eight ways to understand how our default ways of listening, speaking, and engaging are failing us and what we can do about it.

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An introduction to the Eyes Wide Open Life Podcast, About the format of the podcast, about the host, and other helpful information to get a sense of what we will be covering in the upcoming episodes.

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