12. Your Conscience Is the Idea That Would Transform You

On this Happy Halloween episode, I follow the energetic impulse of an idea which I'd been feeling all morning, but which I hadn't yet expressed in any intelligible form, even to myself, before hitting record, and I follow this idea right to the very edge of the terrifying abyss which is the unknown; on this spooky Halloween Day, in this episode, I speculate as to why it is so easy and even natural to feel terror when confronted by this chasm. I wonder if that terror is the right response, in this time we're all living in where the known—that is, all that we have come to know about the world around us, and what we've been brought up to be, by the world—this known is perhaps what is so terrifying. Into the abyss we shall go, without terror, I say—but only if you take the plunge into it in all honesty, as if it was a necessity, and you are at peace with your conscience.