Greek Love
The Greeks broke down love into an array of categories and subcategories: philia, ludus, storge, agape, philautia, pragma, and eros. They also conceptualized time as chronological (kronos) and seasonal (kairos).
Unlearn Life
Join Mia and Shane for rapid-fire dialogue from the privacy of their off-the-grid shack in the woods. Feral and unhinged, these two have about enough education for you to shake a stick at. Farbeit from them to know which opinions are ready for airtime! These are their half-baked hot takes on topics ranging from religious deconstruction to spirituality and sustainable living.
Episodes
Less is More
40% of the perfectly edible food we produce goes straight into the landfill uneaten. With all the waste that abounds, are we willing to make cuts to our lifestyles? With just a few adjustments, we could very well save the planet.
What's All the More Really For?!
20% of the world's population uses a whopping HALF of the world's electricity. Meanwhile, the total population living with no access at all to electricity has grown to one billion people. Is this stark disparity the result of Earth's inability to provide? Or does the disproportion arise from our inability to share?
Find the Slipper
Remember the "Find the Slipper" game we played as children? One kid would hide an object and then direct the other kids by encouraging them with, "freezing, cold, warm, warmer, hot, on fire" until the object was discovered. This is similar to the way our guides speak to us through the veil. In this episode, we compare definitions of gods and guides. We discuss how these characters reach across dimensions to make contact and direct us through our respective dharmas.
A Pickpocket Meets A Sage
Hari Dass Baba was mauna (silent) and put questions to his students using a chalkboard, hence the brevity. One of his brainteasers was the following question: "what happens when a pickpocket sees a sage on the street?" A pickpocket could encounter Buddha himself and reduce the Buddha to a mere pocket, pack, or purse. Feminists could say that men see women "only for their pockets." If men broadened their vision of what women are or could be, they would learn to see past the &q...
The Puzzle of Morality
Morality is a puzzle, and you'll find a piece of it in the Bhagavad Gita, a piece in the Dhammapada, a piece in the Tao Te Ching, a piece in your family life, a piece from your workplace, a piece from nature, from meditation, etc. Christians treat morality like it's something you find all in one spot (the Bible) and Jews treat morality like the Torah has all wisdom, and Muslims say the Quran contains all one needs to know, but there's no one-stop-shop to meet all one's moral need...
Patriarchy 2
The Patriarchy is so much more than "men." It's tied into capitalism, militarism, colonialism, and almost all other toxic "isms." It's a force that has taken on such momentum that it will now require radical countermeasures if we have any hope of true equality for all, and future balance between genders.
Patriarchy 1
The Patriarchy is so much more than "men." It's tied into capitalism, militarism, colonialism, and almost all other toxic "isms." It's a force that has taken on such momentum that it will now require radical countermeasures if we have any hope of true equality for all, and future balance between genders.
Back to Nature
Family farms are the future. That, or else, we may not have a future. According to Swedish scientist Johan Rockstrom, Mother Nature has several "boundaries" within which She must operate or else extinction threatens Her and Her children (ummm...that's us, by the way). Thanks to Big Ag and current unsustainable farming practices, humankind has already breached several of these irreversible "boundaries," which means if we don't find clean, local antidotes to fetid facto...
Days of the Week
This is a short dialogue about the celestial bodies we honor with our days of the week: the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Zen Koans
Emerson famously said, "it's not about the destination but the journey." The power of a koan is its susceptibility to a number of interpretations. Meditation and mindfulness are about the moment and not the outcome. In a time when we need nuance more than ever, koans open our minds to explore possibilities in shades and hues that put to shame our tired old models of binary black and white.