Are We Enslaved to One Side of the Brain? – T...

“Is ours a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people,’ or a Kakistocracy, rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?” (James Russell Lowell, letter in 1876) Kakistocracy is a word that means “rule by the worst”. It is derived from the Greek words kakis ...  Show more

“Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton.” Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom In video games, an NPC, or non-player character, is a background figure who is governed by the programming of the game and capable only of performing assigned actions and repeatin ...  Show more

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, thinker, and lecturer. He is maybe best known for his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Dr. Iain McGilchrist and I discussed a variety of topics relating to the bifurcated brain, how ...  Show more

We’ve grown accustomed to viewing climate change as an enemy we must urgently defeat. But is that the right metaphor for the greatest existential problem of our time? This week, we consider how to reframe the way we think about life on a changing planet.

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Your thinking is the beginning and end of your suffering. This episode will give you answers to questions you've had your entire life. We can only feel what we think, how is that possible? What is the core of overthinking? This episode will take you on a journey of discovery of t ...  Show more