Miseducation With Tyler Kokjohn
Microbiologist Tyler Kokjohn joins us to tackle the pressing question: Since there are more highly educated people than ever before, why are so many of our discussions inane?
Aug 05, 2020•35 min•Season 5Ep. 44
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The Our Undoing Radio family of podcasts includes the flagship show, Paratopia, Paratopia Live, Paratopia Oculus, and Wise Ask.
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Black Magic World
Is the world being influenced by black magicians or occult masters? How can we tell? And does it matter?
Jul 29, 2020•31 min•Season 5Ep. 43
Do Ideas Dress Us In The Morning?
Are ideas alive? If not, then why do they dress us up and make us smell particular to them? And if not, explain the power of the Star Wars saga.
Jul 22, 2020•33 min•Season 5Ep. 42
Is Meat Murder?
Is meat murder? Is eating, itself, murder? Is there a consciousness heirarchy? How do we navigate eating others without feeling terrible about it?
Jul 15, 2020•34 min•Season 5Ep. 41
What Prophesy Means
We wrap up season 4 by wrapping up our three-part conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse. This one is a fantastic exploration of what prophesy means, where it comes from, and living at peace with Earth.
Jul 08, 2020•33 min•Season 4Ep. 40
Kundalini Aliveness
What is kundalini energy not? Probably most of what you've heard. Maybe even what you were told you experienced. We'll get into it. And then we'll go deeper into what matters most.
Jul 01, 2020•25 min•Season 4Ep. 39
Living With Earth Epiphany
Host Jeremy Vaeni shares his personal breakthrough moment about living with Earth. Then, he explains why he still has breakthrough moments even though he had the self-shattering moment happen years ago.
Jun 24, 2020•27 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Of Cesspools And Rabbit Holes
Why do so many of us partake in dark, nonsensical conspiracy theories like QAnon? How can we tell the difference between false and genuine mystery? Would this be an issue if our culture had myths and rights of passage?
Jun 17, 2020•33 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Star Trekking
What is this technology-driven, off-world adventure of a future so many of us strive to create really about?
Jun 10, 2020•24 min•Season 4Ep. 36
George Floyd
Who are we in this moment of great upheaval? What is our responsibility? Who will we be and what will we do when the dust settles? Will George Floyd have died in vain when the outrage dies down?
Jun 04, 2020•31 min
Tiokasin Ghosthorse Part 2
Tiokasin Ghosthorse contiues the conversation about COVID, prophesy, intelligence, and arrogance.
Jun 03, 2020•30 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Tiokasin Ghosthorse Part 1
Tiokasin Ghosthorse joins us to give us a much deeper perspective on the intelligence we know as a virus.
May 27, 2020•24 min•Season 4Ep. 34
Are Prophesies Pointless?
In a world where we refuse to be moved by catastrophe and systemic breakdown, are prophesies pointless?
May 20, 2020•37 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Is Political Change Real?
Can we fix this world with the same sense of self that is breaking it on behalf of the self? Let's talk about it with Joe Gooch, a man who had a view-changing spiritual epiphany 2 1/2 years ago.
May 13, 2020•31 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Crazy For Covid
From our response to a progressive political candidate to our response to a pandemic, we just can't seem to give ourselves a break.
May 06, 2020•26 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Undoing The Sacred
When we undo our definitions of the sacred, when we undo all that we know... when we undo ourselves, does the sacred reveal oneself as us?
Jan 28, 2020•27 min•Season 3Ep. 30
The Sacred And Purpose
What is it like to move from the New York hustle to a living, breathing sacred island? For Carol Fong it is a lot like finding yourself and then finding your purpose.
Jan 21, 2020•50 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Willy Iaukea: Ancient Hawaii
Willy Iaukea is perhaps the last pure-blooded Hawaiian whose lineage predates the arrival of Tahitians around 2,000 years ago. He is the keeper of his family's history and stories. What he says here about the sacred resonates, while turning much of what we think we know on its ear.
Jan 14, 2020•38 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Sacred Ceremony
Tiokasin Ghosthorse gives as much of the Lakota perspective on the sacred as ceremony as the English language allows, while challenging us to ask ourselves why we're asking in the first place.
Jan 07, 2020•44 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Science And The Sacred
Is life considered sacred to scientists, by and large? What about at the microscopic level? Does it help or hinder science to hold life as sacred? Let's ask Tyler Kokjohn professor of microbiology at Midwestern University.
Dec 24, 2019•45 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Shaking Up The Body Temple
If our body is our temple then is there something sacred about form? Can it be accessed through movement? And then what happens when you can no longer move in the same way? Let’s ask fitness instructor Marie Jasmine.
Dec 17, 2019•30 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Daoism And The Sacred
Simon Cox is a martial arts master who trained for 6 years in a Daoist temple in China before receiving his Ph.D. from Rice University. He's here to share with us the Daoist perspective on the sacred and much, much, very much more.
Dec 10, 2019•42 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Subject/Object Relationship To The Sacred
As Coordinator for The Esalen Center for Theory and Research in California, Max Genslen has partaken in numerous programs that promote themselves as teaching the sacred in some form. As a drummer, he understands tapping into the sacred musically. In this episode, Max gives us his reading of our subject/object relationship to the sacred.
Dec 03, 2019•30 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Sacred Nature Of Mauna Kea
SEASON 3 SNEAK PREVIEW! (Full Season begins In Novermber.) Lehua is a Hawaiian elder, a keeper of traditional hula, and a scholar of cultural anthropology, with a focus on indigenous spirituality. If anyone can help us understand what makes a place like Mauna Kea so sacred that protectors are putting their lives on hold to block construction of a massive telescope at its summit, she can. Do not miss this timely and important episode!
Sep 26, 2019•48 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Needing To Be Right and Convert Others
Nature joins us to close out the second season, on what turns into a special episode that asks, “What is the unknowable?”
Apr 23, 2019•30 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Liking Animals More Than People
What is the deep, singular reason some of us say we like animals more than people?
Apr 16, 2019•27 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Patriotism, Nationalism, War And Peace
When we’re at war within we go to war with each other and we parse words to pretend like we’re not all in this together.
Apr 09, 2019•32 min•Season 2Ep. 18
White American Anger
Okay, let’s talk Trump….
Apr 02, 2019•29 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Who is Your CoPilot?
Why is it that children from heart cultures don’t have imaginary friends but religious adults from brain cultures do?
Mar 26, 2019•29 min•Season 2Ep. 16
How We Treat Our Elders
How we treat our elders, as a society, by and large has to do with how we view time.
Mar 19, 2019•31 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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