The Middle Stage of Meditation

The question "What Is The Meaning of Life?" is fraught with difficulties and blindspots. It's so tempting to overcomplicate it, to oversimplify it, or to blindly rely on others to tell you the answer....

1 Maalis 12min

Why are you here? How does personal meaning work? What questions can we ask to get to the core of our personal meaning structure?This is a snippet from my episode What is the Meaning of Life? (#133)Ex...

27 Helmi 10min

What is the meaning of life? When we get down to it, why are we here as individuals? Why does life itself exist? What is all this for?I round off this month's theme of deep questions with the mother o...

25 Helmi 1h 5min

When we deconstruct paradigms like self and other, it's tempting to dismiss it outright. But self-other consciousness serves a clear function, and without it you would be lost. We want not to lose it,...

24 Helmi 4min

You have not always had a sense of self and other: you had to develop it during childhood. It is not a given, but a construct.This also means you can see beyond it and realise it is not the whole stor...

22 Helmi 11min

We tend to assume that other people are separate from us and have their own, independent experiences.Except these are highly questionable assumptions that we debate in this snippet from episode Do Oth...

19 Helmi 8min

We tend to assume other people are separate and independent from us. But what if this was simply a useful assumption or paradigm, not the be all end all?Do other people exist? My conclusion: well... k...

18 Helmi 53min

I propose that the materialistic paradigm is deeply flawed.While it is extremely useful and explanatory, it is underpinned by some highly questionable assumptions.In this snippet from last week's epis...

17 Helmi 8min