Being Mentally Healthy – 17. Being Mentally Healthy
Mental health is as simple as abiding inner quietude. 8:31
Feb 28, 2021•9 min
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Spokes of the Wheel podcasts range among the material presented by Ishi Nobu in his books, including the nature of existence and how and why humanity is wiping itself out.
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Being Mentally Healthy – 16. Attaining Quietude
Sustaining inner silence is the ultimate skill. Simple practices help habituate quietude. 5:51
Feb 27, 2021•6 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 15. Why Mental Illness Is So Common
Mental illness is common because people believe what comes to mind. 4:06
Feb 26, 2021•4 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 14. Skill
Skill is a subconscious process. Intention is everything. Thought accomplishes nothing. 8:56
Feb 25, 2021•9 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 13. Belief
Belief is the bane of sensibility. Beliefs are the weeds in the mind crowding out clarity. 8:30
Feb 24, 2021•9 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 12. Psychospace
The mind traverses its own spacetime continuum to deal with what appears before it. Management of psychospace determines one's level of grace. 9:36
Feb 23, 2021•10 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 11. Consciousness
There are nominally 4 levels and 7 states of consciousness. Raising awareness elevates the enjoyment of living. 6:32
Feb 22, 2021•7 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 10. The Mind
Our instrument for navigating through life - the mind - is itself treacherous. 5:30
Feb 21, 2021•6 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 9. Mental Illness Treatment
The treatment of mental illness through history has been a sordid litany of miscomprehension, neglect, and abuse - sparsely laced with compassion. 12:35
Feb 20, 2021•13 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 8. Mental Illness & Mental Health
Mental illness arises from the predations of inner evil. Mental health is the simple state of being present and unperturbed. 7:11
Feb 19, 2021•7 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 7. The Descent of Psychology
The history of psychology is littered with misconstruals about the mind, and thereby a litany of theories founded on ignorance. A rare few shine through with insight. 19:57
Feb 18, 2021•20 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 6. The Soul
6 distinct, amply documented bodies of evidence prove that souls are immortal. 13:45
Feb 17, 2021•14 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 5. The Entertainment Platform
The architecture of existence is crafted as an entertainment platform for the consciousnesses that populate Nature. Existence is a symbolic construct to which we selectively construe meaning. 6:24
Feb 16, 2021•6 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 4. Evolution
Evolution aims at sustaining life: creative adaptation reflecting environment circumstance. Evolution exemplifies the marvelous coherence by which Nature manifests. 9:14
Feb 15, 2021•9 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 3. Life
The vital energy that renders life is Nature's most wondrous miracle - one that cannot be explained by mere molecules, just as intelligence has nothing to do with brains, which are only a liability. 9:49
Feb 14, 2021•10 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 2. The Physics of Nature
Physics susses the mechanics of how existence emerges. There is a decided consensus by modern physicists on how the world works - and it is more mystical than many would like to admit. 13:29
Feb 14, 2021•13 min
Being Mentally Healthy – 1. Perspectives on Existence
Our worldview and our well-being are intertwined. The path to abiding mental health is only assured by knowing what is really going on. 7:48
Feb 13, 2021•8 min
Economics – 4. Inequity
The failure to comprehend capitalism as inherently inequitable is the reason people have not revolted against it.
Apr 21, 2020•8 min
Economics – 3. Irrational Economics
Capitalism is an emotional, irrational economic system.
Apr 21, 2020•8 min
Economics – 2. Price & Externalities
Price theory underpins the justification for capitalism. The failure of proper pricing is one reason why capitalism is so awry.
Apr 21, 2020•4 min
Economics – 1. History
Economics evolved to maximize exploitation.
Apr 21, 2020•8 min
Political Onus – 8. Eusocialism
The only hope that humanity has to survive to the 22nd century is an unprecedented adoption of compassionate cooperation.
Feb 15, 2020•4 min
Political Onus – 7. The Role of Government
What government has failed to do is how humanity has put itself on the precipice of extinction.
Feb 15, 2020•6 min
Political Onus – 6. Rule of Law
Rule of law has often been a ruse for plutocratic tyranny.
Feb 15, 2020•14 min
Political Onus – 5. Elections
Elections can be ill in representing public will, and invariably sire societal divisiveness.
Feb 15, 2020•17 min
Political Onus – 4. The American Constitution
The US constitution was a botched job that Americans have inanely clung to like it was handed down from God.
Feb 15, 2020•9 min
Political Onus – 3. Ideology
Intellectually, ideology is a reflection of what role government ought to have in society. More poignantly, ideology is a doctrinal belief system based upon a person's emotional constitution.
Feb 15, 2020•6 min
Political Onus – 2. Political Thought
Political thought has historically been a contemplation of the human condition and humanity's potential.
Feb 15, 2020•8 min
Political Onus – 1. Introduction
Politics defines the weave of a society's fabric. Polity has not proven an adept seamster.
Feb 15, 2020•5 min
The Likely Scenario
This is the likely scenario for humanity's self-extinction.
Jan 13, 2020•17 min
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