Almighty Ohm.
394 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSearch for meaning, found. Our value is creation, art and being both. A true implementation of a MetaModernist philosophy grounded in practice. Somatics and Psyche. Gestalt manifest in shatzen. Wholeness/oneness in valuation/meaning/creation.
Almighty Ohm Presents. An autodidact, polymath with a penchant for philosophies and pragmatic practice. Radical pragmatic practices.
Talks about healing inflammation and auto immune, trauma and dyslexia, actualization, Buddhism, philosophy, meditation and mindfulness, the self, life, reality, authenticity....
Al Ohm.
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Thomas Merton on Contemplation.
April 25, 2024 01:52 - 21 minutes - 10.6 MBI talk about new insights, a great book and man, flawed: surely aren't we all, and saving worms... ...
Leaving reviews
April 22, 2024 12:16 - 15 minutes - 7.49 MBListen? Leave a review. Good or bad, tell what you think I should know or got wrong? A one star review without context is a waste of your energy and mine.... Only honorable to be better than your previous self.
Literacy and fluency. Both not one.
April 19, 2024 11:20 - 18 minutes - 9.13 MBAre you literate, but not fluent, fluent but not literate? Learning is our way out/thru. Thinking, being, an agent. Not an automaton.
What is the difference between imagination and the unconscious.
April 17, 2024 13:58 - 1 minute - 620 KBSimply the imagination is the activity of the unconscious in the interplay of the conscious and unconscious self. *Interplay between themselves and their worlds*
A love that transcends all understanding.
April 17, 2024 13:31 - 2 minutes - 1.46 MBHesed, Metta, Maitri, Loving kindness... Words we use as place holders for concepts, for feelings. In this case: an idea of a feeling that is beyond our limited conception...
Reading is listening
April 17, 2024 12:36 - 30 minutes - 14.6 MBSimply we fail to understand how much we are losing, of ourselves... We must learn, challenge, read, and mythologize...
Meaning is missing, thus the modern malaise.
April 16, 2024 12:44 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB** Strong language. Curse word.** What are we missing, is it a meaning that matters? Worse enemy to truth, than lies, are convictions. That tells us that convictions are placeholders for truth in the pursuit. Meaning, truth, is a ceaseless path.
Infinite human dignity
April 11, 2024 12:44 - 3 minutes - 3.62 MBI discuss a recent statement from the Vatican. I am unsure if the document shares what they believe it should?
What is identity to Northrop Frye, and Nietzsche.
April 09, 2024 14:28 - 17 minutes - 8.53 MBI discuss why we need myth, narrative, and story telling... We build ourselves and our society through these practices. We are born of the soil, nurtured by nature and nurturing the soil and the plants in synergy... We are an Us.
Reconstruction not deconstruction
April 09, 2024 12:36 - 9 minutes - 4.5 MBWhat do we need to do to tradition? Faith is an evolving truth based in trust, to fight uncertainty.
Orthodoxy versus progressive.
April 09, 2024 00:20 - 9 minutes - 4.39 MBA balanced approach to all things. I manage to get a reference to nearly every tradition... To illustrate a simple point that we must work towards a goal, work together.
Song sustained our narratives until now?
April 08, 2024 19:47 - 3 minutes - 1.61 MBSimply the idea that mythos is at the heart of who we are. I used movies to narrate my story, as a dyslexic, my friend used song..... Have we lost our stories in our race to evolve and integrate with technology? **Songs and stories and so much more... At the polkadot door... Let's see through the polkadot door...
Authors reveal more of themselves than their ideas.
April 08, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutes - 9.98 MBBook review or indictment of modern post secondary education?
Technology can only replace us if we stop being human.
April 07, 2024 12:52 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBI share thoughts about a Ben Shapiro and Dr Phil show: how ignorant even professionals can be. The Dun/Krug effect. Newbies think they know everything, but experts should remember what Bruce Lee said; from the IChing 'always remember that another may be your better'. That truism pushes us to be better than our previous self. The only honorable endeavor...
Three minutes to Freedom.
April 03, 2024 17:20 - 2 minutes - 2.68 MBHow three minutes of mediation can change your life. I share my favorite insight from a recent book that teaches three minutes a day of meditation for two weeks can change you... I share how short calmness mediation can bring peace to our daily lives. Life long mediator, once a teacher of meditation, Buddhism, philosophy and history in a Temple/Museum. Healing trauma and serious illness with mind and wholeness. Gestalten and Hinterwelten.
What most experts get wrong about Carl Jung's philosophy.
March 29, 2024 15:22 - 10 minutes - 9.88 MBI discuss a Q&A with Jordan Peterson about "what Jung got wrong"... In this we see how wrong JBP was(as many are), how AI can bring us forward and how technology has shown that self directed learning is infinitely better than spoon fed knowledge.
What Peterson got wrong about Jung.
March 29, 2024 15:22 - 10 minutes - 9.88 MBI discuss a Q&A with Jordan Peterson about what Jung got wrong... In this we see how wrong JBP was, how AI can bring us forward and how technology has shown that self directed learning is infinitely better than spoon fed knowledge.
What many get wrong about Carl Jung's philosophy.
March 29, 2024 15:22 - 10 minutes - 9.88 MBI discuss a Q&A with Jordan Peterson about "what Jung got wrong"... In this we see how wrong JBP was(as many are), how AI can bring us forward and how technology has shown that self directed learning is infinitely better than spoon fed knowledge.
I am all that can be surveyed.
March 27, 2024 13:41 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBI discuss "I am that". Tat tvam asi. Power phrases, the name of God. Panentheism? Everything is suffused with the divine, providence?
God, Socrates, and Meaning are done?
March 26, 2024 13:06 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MBGott ist Tot? Socrates is dead? Do we believe in our values, our meaning, our being? We only cease to be when we cease to believe in our humanity entire.
A poet warrior on truth and history.
March 25, 2024 11:28 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MBNeil postman meets a Celtic, poet warrior. What does mass errors in narrative and our source of knowledge mean for our understanding. We need to be more aware of bias and ignorance in history as much as news.
Truth or Narrative?
March 18, 2024 22:17 - 10 minutes - 9.28 MBLessons in propaganda, in knowledge vs wisdom. Disinformation and misinformation. If everything is perspective, then nothing is true.
'Identity' are the stories other people tell, that you believe.
March 11, 2024 22:43 - 54 seconds - 871 KBMythos is the story you tell, formed from your complex of identities, personas, experience, genetics.... Gestalten.
Learning to learn
March 05, 2024 18:42 - 4 minutes - 4.63 MBI discuss reading and thinking. Without it we are lost, literally and figuratively.
Greek Buddhism. Open minds and ears see history change.
March 01, 2024 12:52 - 8 minutes - 7.6 MBI discuss a new discovery that may change our history entirely. Stoicism, epicureans, Pyrrhonism. All influences from Alexander's campaign into India? Egypt? Swat Valley, Ghandara, Barikot.
Faith vs works. Bible and Vivekananda agree.
February 29, 2024 22:22 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MBI discuss the real issue of false faith, exposed by people and their true works, most often self serving and closer to theatre than charity.
How suffering leads to knowledge and growth of self. Trust sustains.
February 29, 2024 14:44 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBI discuss how to read, with example, passages in our great books like the Gita, or the Bible, the IChing, the Dhammapada... Comparing Luke ch23 verses 28-31. The aridity of the soul: St John of the Cross *dark night of the soul/Accent of Mount Carmel. How we must have hope, trust that we can surmount any challenge, *that which does not kill us serves to make us stronger. Trauma dries out our will, but with sacrifice and acceptance we can find the spirit to prevail? The strength lies within, i...
Our side bias...
February 28, 2024 13:39 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBI discuss why smart people believe stupid things. Stupid can be traced to the Latin for ignorance. Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret. We understand these 'things' not when sought, but when practiced and found. So many scholars without experience. Nietzsche again. It is acceptance of uncertainty that is our way through, amor fati. He chose Latin, a little language, to share this intimately complicated truth of existence.
Philosopher fails and walking on water, or walk on your own?
February 27, 2024 18:38 - 11 minutes - 11 MBI discuss a well known philosopher, teaching logic with street epistemology, yet fails to understand basic allegory and prose?
What is to blame for our suffering? For evil?
February 22, 2024 21:58 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBI discuss the idea that evil is sourced in us, we are the majority cause of harms in our world, and that includes cancers and other suffering.
Cancer in kids refutes G0D?
February 22, 2024 21:58 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBI discuss the idea that evil is sourced in us, we are the majority cause of harms in our world, and that includes cancers and other suffering.
Meaning Manifest
February 21, 2024 14:21 - 2 minutes - 2.41 MBHow do we move forward? Status quo to potential. Modern man. Healing the modern malaise.
Jordan Peterson vs Stephan Fry
February 17, 2024 17:05 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBI discuss what is "a higher consciousness" and what they both got wrong about Nietzsche, Jung, and morality and meaning....
Higher consciousness: Jordan Peterson vs Stephan Fry
February 17, 2024 17:05 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBI discuss what is "a higher consciousness" and what they both got wrong about Nietzsche, Jung, and morality and meaning....
Jordan Peterson vs Stephan Frye.
February 17, 2024 17:05 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBI discuss what is " a higher consciousness" and what they both got wrong about Nietzsche, Jung, and morality and meaning....
Heaven is no place for humanity.
February 17, 2024 13:27 - 7 minutes - 6.75 MBI discuss amor fati: love your fate. How to navigate pain and suffering. How to embrace life, to live and be, rather than just do.
Happiness is no place for humanity.
February 17, 2024 13:27 - 7 minutes - 6.75 MBI discuss amor fati: love your fate. How to navigate pain and suffering. How to embrace life, to live and be, rather than just do.
The questions without answer.
February 15, 2024 17:22 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBI discuss the book of Job, one of the oldest books to the. Bible. Answer to Job u Carl Jung. And how accepting our lot is the way through, the Buddhist would agree.
The way out is thru.
February 05, 2024 15:27 - 12 minutes - 5.98 MBThe way out is through, said Camus, and Nietzsche, and Jung... We find our path in the chaos of the potential. Our consciousness is our discernment to define the way through the void, as it were.
Your passion, your path, your purpose? Version 3
February 04, 2024 15:07 - 17 minutes - 9.22 MBValue, meaning ... Vivekananda Nietzsche Jung Bible Vedanta Arendt... What is our purpose, who defines value? Hint: an educated, and compassionate we. **Re-upload with better audio.
What is your passion, your path, your purpose?
February 03, 2024 22:26 - 17 minutes - 9.22 MBValue, meaning ... Vivekananda Nietzsche Jung Bible Vedanta Arendt... What is our purpose, who defines value? Hint: an educated, and compassionate we. **Re-upload with better audio.
Does not need be true, when it is not a lie...
February 02, 2024 18:34 - 16 minutes - 8.25 MBI discuss Frye and the Bible, Nietzsche and Zarathustra. Meaning and purpose in suffering and chaos. Uncertainty is manageable with trust. Pistis. Sraddham.
Mystical experience is not what we think...
January 31, 2024 22:31 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWhat is "religion-less Christianity", how can this idea guide us all, as it was intended.
What is truth and lie?
January 23, 2024 20:15 - 4 minutes - 2.44 MBHow do we differentiate between? Good and evil, certainty and uncertainty, harmful and beneficial... Hamavdil.
Set dressing. Actors and a phantasy.
January 19, 2024 20:09 - 1 minute - 530 KBAll the world is a scam, And we are the marks upon it, And The Lord wants his Vig... _ _ Al ohm, jan2024. A walk in the snow. With a mess below, as is above. A pivot, strained and flayed. A balance leaves the universe in flux...
How to set a watchman?
January 16, 2024 23:01 - 4 minutes - 2.12 MBI discuss Niel Postman(how his lessons on watching the news can inform our journey today), how to see, feel, and interact with ourselves and our environment. How do we live within, so we can minimise the strife without?
The gift of watching with love.
November 28, 2023 20:15 - 5 minutes - 5.51 MBObservations of the seemingly unrelated books. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee and The Gift of Love by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
How to stop worrying and start living.
November 16, 2023 12:02 - 24 minutes - 23 MB*previous recording. Not the best audio.. I share my notes and insights from the Dale Carnegie book. There is a wealth of knowledge available to those with an open mind.
What is in a name...
November 10, 2023 13:31 - 28 minutes - 13.8 MBI discuss a book about poetry, identity, self, our names, meaning and purpose... Where are these located?
Garden of Eden and the evil that is self...
November 02, 2023 13:46 - 9 minutes - 5.15 MBI talk about the Garden of Eden Eve but more importantly I talk about meaning what it is to be a Christian what it is to be a good person but I use Nietzsche and Jung. Two individuals I've been told, they're not Christian, what is the state of education today when practically every day now I run across an individual who will claim something to be true that is very easily shown to be untrue. The opposite as Carl Jung warned he said if what I used to hold as error guides me better than what I h...