Crazy Wisdom
Jim O'Shaughnessy - How do you talk about the unnamed Tao?
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- taoism
- consciousness
- quantum mechanics
- belief systems
- philosophy
- reality
- spirituality
About this episode
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Episode transcript
I often say that we are quantum beings living in a Newtonian universe, right? We are deterministic thinkers living in a probabilistic world. And that just gets us all bollocks up, right? Because if, if, if you, when you're born right, there are any number of preset, prefabricated, prepackaged belief systems, right, that you can adhere to, right? So all religion, whether you're a Christian, a Hindu, a Jew, a Muslim, doesn't matter. They have their belief systems, political systems, family systems, business systems that you know, you can choose to adhere to if
you're aware of welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast, where my guest today was Jim o', Shaughnessy, who is a GIF genius on Twitter and also has some really interesting things to say about the named Tau and can point to the unnamed Tau better than almost anyone I've talked to so far. And I really enjoyed this conversation. It's a really meaningful one for me because I was in New York at the time and I originally we had decided that we were going to do it remotely, and then I got the opportunity to actually go and visit Jim at his office in Stamford, Connecticut. And that's emotional for me because I grew up, my cousins lived in Stamford, Connecticut, growing up, so I have a lot of emotional memories of this area. It was so amazing to go into his office and have his wife's art all over the wall. Beautiful art that you guys should check out and have this beautiful conversation about the nature of reality and what it means to be a human being living in this world where there's social dynamics, but then we also have these laws of the universe that are not clear as human beings because we see everything through a lens of social dynamics. And I really just enjoyed this conversation and I hope you guys get a lot of value out of it. If you do, please leave us a review on itunes. Find us on itunes. Subscribe Crazy Wisdom iTunes Spotify Stitcher I'm also writing and cutting these up into short clips, cutting these episodes up into short clips for my blog@stuartalsop.substack.com and so if you'd like kind of a little bit more editorial understanding on how these ideas that I'm getting from other people are impacting my life. And then check it out@stuartalsop.substack.com really hope you enjoy this episode. Please let me know if you have any thoughts what you think. I'm on twitterartalsop III if you want to engage there. I try to, try to answer all the tweets that are sent to me there. You can find Jim there as well. Listen to the episode and I'll put it in the. In our show notes how to find him. But yeah. Hope you guys have a great day. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Jim o' Shaughnessy and we'll just skip the introductions and go straight into it.
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