Crazy Wisdom
The strangest podcast intro you'll listen to this week - Thomas Spellman
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- faith
- spirituality
- God
- bahai
- identity
- Right
- Left
- ingroup
About this episode
Thomas, like any other human being, is a lot of things and is working on a lot of stuff. He loves to code, play the bass guitar, and is devoted to truth and beauty, among others. You can interact with his ideas on life on his blog at thosmos.com.
In this episode, we discuss identity politics, the battle between the left and the right, consciousness, plants, inequality, and of course, much more. Enjoy.
(3:25) The strangest podcast intro you’ll listen to this week.
(7:35) The consequences of modifying government policies to help the rich get richer
(9:07) Is upward mobility possible for everyone?
(12:44) Some business models that allow for more equality between employees and employers.
(18:13) Why facts don’t change our minds
(21:00) How are we to transcend identity politics?
(24:55) What indigenous tribes can teach us about establishing a harmonious society
(29:09) Are plants conscious? A scientists’ interesting experimental report on communicating with a plant.
(30:25) Where do thoughts come from? And what exactly is consciousness? Is it produced from the brain or do we receive it?
(39:17) The fundamental polarity at play in human relationships and cooperation
(42:14) The 99% vs the 1% isn’t really a battle between the lower-class and the elite or at least it doesn’t have to be; there’s a better way to unify.
(45:34) How Bernard Lietaer connected economics, psychology, and archetypes; how suppressing important archetypes creates a dysfunctional society, and how modern society incentivizes greed and fear
(53:15) The government is reflective of the collective psyche of the people.
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast doesn't really have a specific theme. It covers a lot of my interests. It covers a lot of other people's interests. It goes into philosophy, spirituality, business, how to live a good life, many different things. Ultimately, I don't believe in having themes for the things that we do. We can categorize the things and obviously we categorize things all the time, but I like to keep things open ended a continuous process of discovering the truth as it is. And the truth is tricky because we can't really get to the truth exactly, because the truth is non linear. It is, in the words of John Vervaeke, combinatorially explosive. Even the truth of this window that I'm looking at, the window itself, the glass that makes up the window, is combinatorially explosive. The cup that holds your water is combinatorially explosive. You cannot model that cup totally in your head. You're only getting an image of it with your eyes and your brain. That's not the actual cup itself. So this show is a discovery of truth wherever it may appear. By talking to people from various different fields. I've talked to artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, refugees, just talking to anybody who has a glimpse into the truth. And through this conversation, through this mutual inquiry into what is true, what is real, hopefully we get to something that is helpful for to you
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