E219 - Robert Greene: The 12 Doorways to the Sublime & What Almost Dying Taught Me About Being Alive

In this episode I sit down with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Art of Seduction, and The Laws of Human Nature, to explore his latest book on the sublime. Robert first imagined researching it through travels to the Amazon and distant mountains. Then a stroke nearly took his life and confined him to his home. With his left side paralyzed, he spent seven years handwriting the book and discovered that the sublime was waiting in his own backyard.

What We Dive Into:

1. Robert describes adult life as dead time, measured in abstract blocks of minutes and hours. Children live inside time like a river, seeing the world for the first time, and much of our restless dissatisfaction is a buried memory of that open, unfiltered way of meeting the world each day.

2. The brain prunes enormous amounts of sensory data so we can function, constructing both our reality and a sense of a separate self. Focused attention, like Gurdjieff’s practice of self-remembering, can loosen that filter and let the world appear strange, vivid, and alive again.

3. Robert links our avoidance of pain, discomfort, and death to a loss of inner resilience. When suffering and mortality are faced deliberately, they can be transmuted into acceptance and compassion, along with a deeper kinship with everyone who has lived, suffered, and died before us.

Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself.

https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com

✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:

https://www.sleep.me/knowthyself

To get up to $640 off your Chilipad 2.0

with code KNOWTHYSELF

https://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyself

Use code KNOWTHYSELF for up to 43% off sitewide

Waking Up: Get your 14 day free trial!

https://www.wakingup.com/knowthyself

___________

00:00 Intro

02:00 A Stroke and the Backyard Amazon

10:03 Writing a Book by Hand

13:07 The Circle of Everyday Consciousness

18:54 The Anti-Sublime

25:01 The Cosmic Sublime

35:00 The Pagan Sublime and Eleusinian Mysteries

42:50 The Hunger for Collective Ecstasy

47:01 Childhood as an Awakening

52:20 Returning to a Second Innocence

59:15 Despair as a Doorway

1:02:51 Vulnerability and Feeling Ridiculous

1:04:25 The Naked Brain

1:12:37 Gurdjieff and the Power of Attention

1:22:22 The Interspecies Sublime

1:31:00 Loneliness and the Animal World

1:37:56 The Love Sublime

1:45:58 Love and the Art of Seduction

1:50:07 The Historical Sublime

1:55:13 How Language Shapes Experience

1:59:46 The Daemon and the Primary Self

2:06:27 Mastery and the Inner Voice

2:15:04 Ingrid Bergman and Her Daemon

2:19:07 Different Forms of Intelligence

2:23:22 Talent Without Love

2:27:33 The Aesthetic Sublime

2:36:03 The Dynamical Sublime

2:43:41 Inviting Challenge Back In

2:52:13 Suffering as a Rite of Passage

2:56:32 The Death Sublime

3:00:34 Near-Death Experiences and Consciousness

3:08:31 Visualizing Your Own Death

3:12:51 The Haiku Poet Issa

3:17:13 One Thing to Carry Forward

___________

✨MORE FROM ROBERT GREENE

↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertgreeneofficial/

↳Pre-order The Law of the Sublime: https://sites.prh.com/lawofthesublime?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAad30lDYWsD_tVwsefFroQ0yA0SpKuRsN-lBhV7iqF_2m0foDmB2qlDKpVA9pg_aem_pjv6BG4q4JoEqBVGGwHeDA

↳YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RobertGreeneOfficial

↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robertgreene

↳All Books: https://powerseductionandwar.com:

📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF

↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l

↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX

↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/

↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum

↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/

↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/

👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ

↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum

↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast

↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(219)

E218 - Mel Robbins: The Secret to Actually Transforming Your Life

In this episode I sit down with Mel Robbins, host of The Mel Robbins Podcast and author of The Let Them Theory. Mel takes me back to the age of 41, when liens on her house, unemployment, heavy drinkin...

27 Okt 1h 34min

E217 - David Whyte: The Conversational Nature of Reality

David Whyte trained as a marine zoologist, spent two years as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos, and went on to become one of the most beloved poets of our time. In this conversation we begin with w...

20 Okt 2h 10min

E216 - Janna Levin: An Astrophysicist's Guide to Black Holes, Higher Dimensions & the Nature of Reality

In this episode, I sit down with Janna Levin, a theoretical astrophysicist at Barnard College of Columbia University, Guggenheim fellow, and author of Black Hole Survival Guide, Black Hole Blues, A Ma...

13 Okt 2h 22min

E215 - Elizabeth Gilbert: Love Addiction, Telling the Truth & Hearing Your Inner Voice

Elizabeth Gilbert joins me for her first public conversation after a six month sabbatical, a stretch where she stopped writing, producing, and planning so she could simply be available to life. Liz is...

6 Okt 2h 13min

E214 - Tom Bilyeu: Humanity Is Splitting into 4 Futures… Choose Wisely

My guest today is Tom Bilyeu, the entrepreneur behind Quest Nutrition who went on to build Impact Theory into one of the most watched long form interview channels in the world. Tom is now building a p...

29 Sep 2h 39min

E213 - Matthew Hussey: The Patterns Blocking You From Love (& What To Do)

Matthew Hussey is back on the show, and this conversation picks up right where our last one left off, except he's grown a lot since then. Matthew built his early career on a simple idea: create more o...

22 Sep 2h 35min

E212 - Dr. Shefali: How To Raise Conscious Children (It Starts With You)

I sat down with Dr. Shefali, clinical psychologist trained at Columbia and the voice behind the Conscious Parenting Movement for over two decades, to explore what it really means to parent from awaren...

15 Sep 1h 56min