We primarily think of actors as the ones playing a role and pretending to be someone they really are not. But in a sense everyone wears a mask and acts out a charade. This can be done deliberately, but most of the time is quite subconscious and involuntary. What are the purposes of putting on an invisibile mask? What would life be like without them? And how many layers of masks does a person actually wear?
The lecture "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature" by Steven Pinker gives some examples and explanations of persons choosing to express their intention indirectly in order to get the best possible outcome with the least possible risk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1d3cNge24&t=1975s
Steven and William analyse what goes on physically between a man and a woman when they are attracted to each other. Many factors are at play that cause them to feel drawn towards each other, most of them subconsciously. Which of them are natural features, which of them societal norms?
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OCD is often misrepresented in the media. Whath is really behind the ritualistic actions that affected persons feel compelled to do to quell their unease? How does it feel to have unwanted, recurring thoughts? What is the source of this disorder? If you are affected, how can you turn a seeming weakness such as OCD to your own advantage, in order to develop yourself into something greater?
Wikipedia article on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder
Book Recommendation: "You are not your Brain" by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPfHJ6SajI
Talk: "You are not your brain" by Dr. Jeffrey M Schwartz at Mind & Its Potential 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcrGlUHlu4M
Article on covert OCD
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/because-we-are-bad/202009/what-are-mental-compulsions-in-ocd
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After failing their last attempt at surviving the frozen Sahara, Steve and William restart the adventure story "Heart of Ice". This time reversing their roles of reader and decider, they follow a differnt path of treachery and peril, this time as an explorer character. Will they achieve their goal of staying alive for an entire episode, or will they have to cheat and undo some of the decisions that led them to unexpected death along their way to the lost city of Du-En?
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After travelling from Venis to Kahira to the lost city of Du-En, Steven and William are confronted with a mystical cave that is supposed to contain the heart of Volent, a meteorite that allegedly grants powers of godhood. This is the final battleground of our adventure, where we and several other serious raiders are in a deadly competition to obtain inifinite power. Who can we trust? How many times will we die on our way through the cave? Find out in this episode.
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roaches to wealth and the accrual of wealth can be a two-edged sword. Are you getting rich by exploiting other people? Or are you building your financial independence by helping others achieve their own as well? We consider how our psychology towards money can have a great effect on our well-being and direction in life.
Book Recommendation: "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace Wattles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich
Book Recommendation: "Increase Your Financial IQ" by Robert Kiyosaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kiyosaki
Documention on the history of money and central banks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJd6RKsY5H4
The Law of Attraction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)
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Today Falk Kastell helps me better understand what intuition is and how it can work in every-day life. William's heavy intellectual propensity makes it a challenge for him to come to terms with subconscious signals and relying on them to make decisions. Let's see whether Falk can assist him in raising his awareness and expanding his personal capacity for multi-faceted perception.
This episode's title is a quote by Karl Gustav Jung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
Chris Turner is a highly intuitive English rapper. His YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChrisPJTurner
An article on the meaning of the law of attraction and synchronicity, also providing examples:
https://www.thelawofattraction.com/synchronicity/
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What does it take for a person interested in helping other people with their mental healing process to becoming a fully-fledged psycho therapist? Koji Okumura devoted many years to the necessary academic training including a Ph.D. in order to not only treat individuals, but also to lecture on the topic and to advise companies in the capacity of an industrial therapist. He shares some nuggets of his career path and his wealth of experience as a psycho therapist.
William makes reference to Daniel Mackler, an American psycho therapist, and his video Why I Quit Being a Therapist":
https://youtu.be/f0Fi32LbXHA
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Today we discuss the concept of freedom, including questions around
* self-awareness vs. being a product of my environment
* autonomy vs. being parented by the state
* representative vs. direct democracy
* epistemic vs. ontological uncertainty
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